{"id":36325,"date":"2026-08-10T10:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=36325"},"modified":"2026-08-10T10:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T05:58:06","slug":"hasan-pikers-mom-admits-she-doesnt-love-china-like-her-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=36325","title":{"rendered":"Hasan Piker\u2019s mom admits she doesn&#8217;t &#8216;love&#8217; China like her son"},"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<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F08%2Fpiker-comp.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hasan Piker\u2019s mom admitted that she doesn\u2019t even agree with her far-left influencer son\u2019s \u201clove\u201d of communist China. <\/p>\n<p>Sedef Piker, an architectural historian and the mother of the provocative streamer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-features\/hasan-piker-twitch-stream-midterms-1235604577\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Rolling Stone magazine<\/a> in a profile of her son that she is \u201cnot in love with China like he is.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cI\u2019m not in love with China like he is,\u201d Hasan Piker\u2019s mother, Sedef Piker, told Rolling Stone.\u00a0 <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@hasandpiker<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hasan Piker, meanwhile, has praised the People\u2019s Republic of China on several occasions.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq.com\/story\/why-internet-stars-are-chinamaxxing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described the communist country as  \u201cf\u2014ing sick\u201d<\/a> on a livestream during a two-week tour of the nation in November 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s f\u2013king sick, okay? You have abundance-style consumption paired up with a centrally controlled economy and economic system that has yielded tremendous development,\u201d he gushed.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cYou 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>Piker also praised former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, Mao Zedong, in a livestream during the trip. The founder of the People\u2019s Republic of China was responsible for the starvation deaths of millions of people under his rule. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMao Zedong is one of the great leaders of this world, OK? A man who changed the entire universe, the entire planet,\u201d Hasan said.<\/p>\n<p>The streamer also bizarrely claimed that he\u2019d \u201cbecome Chinese.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my heart, in my soul, in my mind, in my conscience, I have already become Chinese,\u201d he said during the trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Hasan Piker once bizarrely claimed that he\u2019d \u201cbecome Chinese.\u201d\u00a0 <span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Julia Demaree Nikhinson<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Piker made no secret of his love for China, he has had much more damning things to say about the US \u2014 the nation where he was born and lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The champagne socialist \u2014 who drives a $200,000 Porsche \u2014 distubingly crowed that \u201camercia deserved 9\/11\u201d back in 2019. <\/p>\n<p>He has also come under fire for saying that it \u201cdoesn\u2019t matter if rapes happened on Oct. 7,\u201d referring to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/02\/world-news\/israel-marks-1000-days-since-oct-7-hamas-massacre-that-killed-over-1200-people\/\">Hamas terror attack against Israel<\/a>\u00a0that killed more than 1,200 people.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Streamer Hasan Piker, left, and Abdul El-Sayed, center right, take a selfie with young fans following a campaign event, Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich. <span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Besides her son\u2019s Sinophilia, Sedef Piker also told the magazine that she wished he would tone it down and not joke so much online.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Sedef Piker said that she wished her son would tone it down and not joke so much online.\u00a0 <span class=\"credit\">Instagram\/@hasandpiker<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI worry about him. The internet is a very savage place,\u201d the mom said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One point of contention she no longer has with her son, however, is his decision to stop taking risque shirtless photos in the bathroom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad we\u2019ve moved from naked pictures to suits,\u201d she joked.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\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>Hasan Piker\u2019s mom admitted that she doesn\u2019t even agree with her far-left influencer son\u2019s \u201clove\u201d of communist China. Sedef Piker, an architectural historian and the mother of the provocative streamer, told Rolling Stone magazine in a profile of her son that she is \u201cnot in love with China like he is.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not in love&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/08\/piker-comp.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-hub"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}