"Manchurian candidate" nghĩa là gì?

"Manchurian candidate" = ứng cử viên Mãn Châu lý -> nghĩa là chính trị gia bị thế lực thù địch điều khiển như con rối; chỉ sự không trung thành hoặc tha hóa (dù vô tình hay cố ý).

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Scott Morrison this week launched an attack on Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party for being too soft on China. The Prime Minister went so far as to call deputy Labor leader Richard Marles "a Manchurian candidate" in parliament.

This thinking is erroneous (sai lầm) because it vastly overestimates the capacity of an external power, creating the picture of central coordination (sự kết hợp) and a “cabal” (âm mưu, bè đảng) of planners behind the scenes of every move. This idea that the CI A is behind every move is the direct counterpart of China’s Manchurian candidate.

Is Quentin Koffey Wall Street’s Manchurian Candidate? In the cold war classic film, an American soldier is brainwashed (bị tẩy não) by a hostile (thù địch) foreign power into unwittingly bringing down the US government. Koffey is a well-known activist investor who, after stints at Elliott Management and DE Shaw, now has his own hedge fund, Politan Capital Management. He is seeking a board seat at Masimo Corp, a California-based maker of pulse oximeters (máy đo nồng độ oxy trong máu) with an enterprise valuation of $8bn.

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