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As the President-Elect of the United States, Donald Trump has sparked an unexpected sensation in Sichuan, China. This year, he’s become known as “Chuanpu,” one of two spellings commonly used by mainstream media outlets in the region. Some have joked about his connection to Sichuan due to the shared Chinese character in their names. A conspiracy theory circulating on social networks Weibo and WeChat claims that Trump was actually born in Sichuan in 1946 when his father supposedly set up a business in China after World War II