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The Chinese roots of ‘gung-ho’ as Trump and Xi look to shared history
The Chinese roots of ‘gung-ho’ as Trump and Xi look to shared history
Chinese viewers watching Donald Trump welcome Xi Jinping to the White House on Thursday may have been puzzled by the US president’s reference to the “Chinese phrase” gung-ho. Turning to Baidu – or increasingly, Doubao, the country’s most popular AI chatbot – they may well have asked: what Chinese expression is he referring to? It sounds Chinese, but gung-ho is neither part of everyday usage nor…