{
    "byline": "Lauren Hilgers",
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    "excerpt": "On a Friday night in late May, Wang Jian was getting ready to broadcast. It was pouring outside, and he was sitting in the garage apartment behind his house, just outside Boston, eating dinner. \u201cI am very sensitive to what Trump does,\u201d Wang was telling me, in Mandarin, waving a fork. \u201cWhen Trump holds a cabinet meeting, he sits there and the people next to him start to flatter him. And I think, isn\u2019t this the same as Mao Zedong? Trump sells the same thing: a little bit of populism, plus a little bit of small-town shrewdness, plus a little bit of \u2018I have money.\u2019\u201d",
    "lang": null,
    "length": 23408,
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    "title": "\u2018Americans are democracy\u2019s equivalent of second-generation wealth\u2019: a Chinese journalist on the US under Trump"
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