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Publication du Centre d’étude de la vie politique de l’Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) (Cahier du Cevipol / Brussels Working Paper) : «Right-wing populist discourse on Chinese social media: Identity, otherness, and global imaginaries » (dir. Chenchen Zang), n° 3/2019. Librement téléchargeable à l’adresse : ici.Abstract : The  last  few  years  have  seen  the  emergence  of  a  right-wing  populist  discourse  on Chinese  social  media  that  combines  the  claims,  vocabulary,  and  style  of  right-wing populisms in Europe and North America with previous forms of nationalism and racism in Chinese   cyberspace.   In   other   words,   it   provokes   a   similar   hostility   towards immigrants, Muslims, feminism, the so-called ‘liberal elites’, and progressive values in general.  This  article  examines  how,  in  debating  global  political  events  such  as  the European  refugee crisis  and  the  American  presidential  election,  well-educated  and well-informed Chinese internet users appropriate the rhetoric of ‘Western-style’ right-wing populism to paradoxically criticise Western hegemony and discursively construct China’s  ethno-racial  and  political identities.  Through  qualitative  analysis  of  1,038 postings  retrieved  from  a  popular  social  media  website,  this  research  shows  that  by criticising Western ‘liberal elites’, the discourse constructs China’s ethno-racial identity against the  ‘inferior’  non-Western  other,  exemplified  by  non-white  immigrants  and Muslims, with racial nationalism on one hand; and formulates China’s political identity against  the  ‘declining’  Western  other  with  realist  authoritarianism  on  the  other.  We conclude by conceptualising the discourse as embodying the logics of anti-Western Eurocentrism and anti-hegemonic hegemonies. This article 1) provides critical insights into the changing ways in which self/other relations are imagined in Chinese popular geopolitical discourse; 2) sheds light on the global circulation of extremist discourses facilitated by the internet; and 3) contributes to the ongoing debate on populism and the ‘crisis’ of the liberal world order.