Chen Ping, a professor at Fudan, made the rare remarks last year that “2,000 yuan is happier than 3,000 dollars” and “the United States is in deep water”, which sparked controversy. (Screenshot)
Chen Ping, a senior researcher at Fudan University Research Institute and adjunct professor at Fudan University’s School of Economics, made the rare comments last year that “2,000 yuan is happier than 3,000 dollars” and “the United States is in deep trouble”, which sparked controversy. The long-Time “anti-American fighter” has settled in the United States for a long time, leading to online trolling and scolding.
Last year, a video of a speech by Chen Ping, an adjunct professor at Fudan University’s School of Economics, went viral on the Internet.
In his speech, Professor Chen said that a monthly income of 2,000 yuan in mainland China, although converted into less than $1,000 (note: actually less than $300), is much happier than having $3,000 in the United States. The United States is now living in deep water, very simple, there is no public transportation in the United States ……
Chen Ping holds a bunch of titles, including: senior researcher at the Research Institute of Fudan University, adjunct professor at the School of Economics of Fudan University, adjunct professor at the School of Economics of Peking University, founding director of the World Economic Association (WEA), foreign researcher at Columbia University, visiting scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, and host of the program “Meishan Discusses Swords”.
Once this statement came out, it sparked a lot of controversy. Many people refuted Chen Ping’s statement one by one through a series of factors such as Chinese and American prices, Exchange Rates, purchasing power, driving costs, car insurance, gas prices, housing prices, and personal experiences living in the United States.
A self-published article said that Professor Chen’s remarks were clearly claptrap, knowing full well how ridiculous the claim was, but spreading such anti-intellectual information in front of countless students and faculty at Tsinghua University, with the fear that his aim was to grab the increasingly pink and brain-damaged Internet audience.
The article also warned Chen: “Public figures are influential and trusted and emulated by countless people, so they should take doing good and telling the truth as the bottom line of their lives and work, and if you can’t tell the truth, you can choose not to speak. Otherwise, no matter how ambitious you are today, the memory of the Internet will one day make you infamous.”
Today, that warning hits the mark. The fuse was the Texas blackout.
When Texas was hit by a winter storm that knocked out power to two million people, the Chinese Communist Party‘s official media made a big deal of the tragedy in the U.S. The Mainland Observer interviewed Professor Chen Ping, whose Home is in the U.S. capital of Austin amid the disaster.
In the interview, Professor Chen said his new modern home is facing an energy crisis with only an electric furnace and no natural gas or other energy sources. He claims he plans to be prepared for water, electricity and communication outages.
Professor Chen also said that his home “is still a specially selected bungalow. If a building, or even a high-rise building, can’t survive without electricity”.
On Feb. 17, Professor Chen also posted on his Weibo account that the high-tech district of Austin, the capital of Texas, where he is now located, lost power for seven hours on Feb. 15 due to the sudden snow and ice that had not been seen for decades.
Netizens trolling
Professor Chen intended to describe the misery and powerlessness of the United States in the face of natural disasters, but accidentally exposed to the mainland public that his home is actually in the United States. The Internet’s early records were turned up, leading to a flurry of trolling online and on Weibo.
“This is the bricklayer who said that receiving a salary of 2,000 in the mainland is better than 3,000 in the United States”, “Chen Lao is to experience Life in the United States? Go to experience 3,000 U.S. dollars is not as happy as our country 2,000 yuan to live?” “Two thousand yuan than three thousand dollars to live a funny, but also wash, a bunch of bad X pit mongering public!”
Many netizens rebuked: “A person living in the United States and we desperately say patriotic is also very ironic, buy a house in the United States, live in the United States do not chatter, false or hypocritical?” “Damn work and life is divided really clear, disgusting, how can this still give us patriotic youth lessons?”
“Encourage young people to stay in the rural areas of the mainland, stay in the big city of Shanghai themselves, and send their daughters to cities in the United States.” “An American with a Family in the United States teaches mainlanders how to be patriotic, haha, the pink people are estimated to have swollen faces. Chen maggot head so hate the United States will hurry back to the mainland, like you such barkers back to the country is estimated to have a few thousand wages.”
Some people also analyzed that “scolding the United States can make money, famous, but also can live happily as usual; scolding the Chinese Communist Party, the price is too big.”
There are also netizens teasing Professor Chen Ping: “The reason why Professor Chen Ping purchased a new house in the United States is out of purely academic research nature, the main purpose is to go deeper into life, close observation of the misfortunes of the American people, to thoroughly verify the accuracy of the theory that three thousand dollars is better than two thousand yuan!”
“Anti-Americanism is work, going to America is life, Mr. Chen must go undercover in America, carry forward the anti-American cause, take root, lead the Antifa organization, establish a party branch, and occupy the White House!”
“When will the assassination mission that the organization sent you to engage in be completed?”
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Chronic anti-American rhetoric
Posts on Chen Ping’s certified Weibo account show that Chen Ping has a long history of anti-American rhetoric despite being in the United States.
During a recent visit by a WHO expert panel to Wuhan to supposedly investigate the origin of the outbreak, Chen Ping once again repeated arguments made by the Chinese Communist Party’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian and others that “the possibility that the virus was leaked from a U.S. biological laboratory cannot be ruled out” and said he had made such statements back when the outbreak first began.
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Chen has also been advising the Chinese Communist Party during the recent U.S. election chaos.
On Jan. 12, before Biden took office, Chen suggested in a Weibo post that “we should send Biden a ‘big gift’ before the change of government in the U.S.” “I hope the Chinese Communist Party authorities will change the passive situation of diplomacy in the past and not wait until the U.S. strikes first and then the Chinese Communist Party will be the first to do so. I hope the CCP authorities will change the passive diplomatic situation in the past, and not wait until the US strikes first and then the CCP reacts passively, but the CCP should take the initiative to construct the next chess game.”
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On Jan. 27, he wrote in a tweet, “I guess Biden will definitely use the North Korea card if he really wants to maintain U.S. leadership in East Asia. My suggestion is to pre-empt Biden, and before Biden can figure out how to take over the mess left by Trump (Trump) on North Korea, the Communist Party of China has to first propose and push for the establishment of a cooperative organization for nuclear security in Northeast Asia, and at the same time push for the mainland to establish a land corridor out of Japan’s sea.”
In addition, Chen said on his Weibo account that “Chairman Mao is the person I admire most” and suggested “reviving the tradition of Chairman Mao’s era. The U.S. trade war and the new Epidemic have turned the U.S. back to its original form, subverting the post-war international order and causing U.S. hegemony to collapse.”
A mainland netizen was so angry that he replied to Wang Lang, imitating Zhuge Liang’s words: “Old man with a white head and a pale beard! You have lived a life of seventy-six years in vain, and you have not achieved a single inch in your life, but only shake your lips and drum your tongue! I have never seen such a shameless person!”
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