The Chinese roots of โgung-hoโ 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 presidentโs reference to the โChinese phraseโ gung-ho. Turning to Baidu โ or increasingly, Doubao, the countryโs most popular AI chatbot โ 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 an idiom drawn from classical texts โ making this moment almost as baffling as when US Secretary of...