Accelerator-in-Chief

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Accelerator-in-Chief (simplified Chinese: 总加速师; traditional Chinese: 總加速師; pinyin: zǒng jiā​sù shī) is a nickname or jargon used by Chinese netizens to satirize Xi Jinping, current general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC), whose internal and foreign policies accelerate/expedite the process of either "bringing China to a strong rivalry with the superpowers", or "the collapse of the CCP". This term is patterned after Architect-in-Chief (Chinese: 总设计师), a commonly-used title for Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader who initiated the Reform and Opening of the PRC.[1][2][3]

It became popular in early 2020 on Twitter and are widely used by Chinese liberals and supporters for democracy as a slang to express dissatisfaction with censorship and highhand policies.[4] Some users think if the system is beyond repair, instead of opposing or correcting its problems, it is a better choice to accelerate its original course towards demise.[5]

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  1. ^ "ACCELERATOR-IN-CHIEF". China Digital Times. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
  2. ^ 呂月 (2020-06-10). "「總加速師」庚子年的瘋狂". 香港: 蘋果日報. Archived from the original on 2020-10-24. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  3. ^ "習近平為什麼被稱為「總加速師」？". 世界日報. 2020-07-22. Archived from the original on 2020-09-19. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
  4. ^ "中国政治暗语"入关学"与"加速主义"：年轻一代的幻灭和狂热". BBC中文. 2020-08-18.
  5. ^ "加速主义". 中国数字空间. Retrieved 2020-08-29.
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