{"id":146328,"date":"2026-02-17T15:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146328"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:30:31","slug":"hasan-piker-talks-about-his-controversial-china-trip-and-thinking-chinese-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146328","title":{"rendered":"Hasan Piker talks about his controversial China trip \u2013 and \u2018thinking Chinese thoughts\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostHasan Piker knew his first trip to China would provoke backlash. What he did not expect was how quickly the debate would collapse into a binary: propaganda or patriotism.<br \/>\nThe live-streamer, and one of the most influential political commentators on the left among young Americans, travelled to China last year and live-streamed his experiences to over 3 million followers across platforms, including Twitch and YouTube.<br \/>\nClips of his visit circulated widely, some carried by Chinese state-linked&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/diplomacy\/article\/3343845\/hasan-piker-talks-about-his-controversial-china-trip-and-thinking-chinese-thoughts?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostHasan Piker knew his first trip to China would provoke backlash. What he did not expect was how quickly the debate would collapse into&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}