Originally Published as ‘China’s ‘National Rejuvenation’ v/s MAGA’, India’s World, Vol. 1, Issue 4, July/August 2025. pp. 105-107.

The world is currently reeling from US President Donald Trump’s desire to “Make America Great Again.” The MAGA movement and Trump’s second turn at the American presidency is a populist response to years of rising income inequality and social upheaval in the US. Long before Trump came up with MAGA, however, Communist Party of China (CPC) General Secretary Xi Jinping had come up with his call for “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation”. 

While imagined hurts are useful for governing elites in both countries in directing their respective population, what separates the two is that China has not lost sight of scientific rationalism in its development agenda or of either realism or reality in its internal and external politics. For these reasons, the CPC’s calls for national rejuvenation are weightier and more consequential than MAGA.

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