{"id":35799,"date":"2026-08-10T04:32:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T23:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=35799"},"modified":"2026-08-10T04:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T23:32:55","slug":"even-hasan-pikers-mom-cant-stand-his-love-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=35799","title":{"rendered":"Even Hasan Piker\u2019s Mom Can\u2019t Stand His \u2018Love\u2019 For China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5675289\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5675289\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5675289\" src=\"https:\/\/am13.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2025\/11\/piker.jpg\" alt=\"Hasan Piker\" width=\"962\" height=\"542\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5675289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Screenshot via social media)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Praising communist China is too much, even for a loving mother.<\/p>\n<p>Left-wing streaming star <strong>Hasan Piker <\/strong>received a\u00a0friendly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/hasan-piker-twitch-stream-midterms-1235604577\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">profile<\/a> from <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> on Sunday which celebrated him for being a &#8220;matinee-handsome progressive icon&#8221; who is &#8220;uniquely talented at translating radical-left politics for Gen Z bros.&#8221; But the article noted Piker&#8217;s mom Sedaf, although she shares most of his political opinions, isn&#8217;t a big fan of his China admiration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not in love with China like he is,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Her comment comes after Piker has praised China \u2014 and bashed the USA \u2014 on a number of occasions. During a fawning livestream while on a trip to the country last year, Piker insisted he would never dare criticize <strong>Mao Zedong<\/strong>, the founder of China&#8217;s communist government.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">&#8220;I got stopped by a cop who thought I was making fun of Mao Zedong, which I never would and never will,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/hasan-piker-vows-never-criticize-mao-zedong-resurfaced-video-hails-great-leader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Piker said<\/a>. &#8220;Mao Zedong is one of the great leaders of this world, OK? A man who changed the entire universe, the entire planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">He certainly changed things in China, where his &#8220;Great Leap Forward&#8221; plan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-independent.com\/arts-entertainment\/books\/news\/maos-great-leap-forward-killed-45-million-in-four-years-2081630.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed tens of millions of people<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Piker had plenty of other nice things to say about China on his trip, including describing the country as &#8220;f*cking sick.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have abundance-style consumption paired up with a centrally controlled economy and economic system that has yielded tremendous development,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/why-internet-stars-are-chinamaxxing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he raved<\/a>. &#8220;You have 1950s Soviet-era building blocks next to the Gucci store. If there was ever a country that represented the synthesis of the things that I enjoy so much personally, if ever such a country existed, I do not know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, he declared he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/hasan-piker-declares-i-dont-have-any-patriotism-for-america-while-streaming-from-tiananmen-square\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has &#8220;no patriotism&#8221;<\/a> in his heart for America. Which was not a big surprise, considering he previously said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/nbcs-welker-confronts-el-sayed-about-hasan-piker-do-you-disavow-him-saying-america-deserved-9-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. &#8220;deserved&#8221; to be attacked<\/a> on 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/even-hasan-pikers-mom-cant-stand-his-love-for-china\/\">Even Hasan Piker\u2019s Mom Can\u2019t Stand His \u2018Love\u2019 For China<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\">Mediaite<\/a>.<\/p>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Screenshot via social media) Praising communist China is too much, even for a loving mother. 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