From Jack Sparrow to Bride of Chucky, Iran’s video jibes at Trump are online hit in China

The Iranian embassy in Beijing has released an animated rap video featuring internet memes and pop culture to mock US leaders and celebrate Iran’s warm ties with China. The two-minute video What is the East? was published on Monday afternoon and had drawn over 370,000 views by noon the next day. It also carried a strong message of Eastern unity and leaned heavily into millennial and Gen Z nostalgia to demonstrate cultural crossover. This included an animated version of Pesar Ammeh Za – a pupp...

By Laura Zhou