The name Tracy Reagan is on fire! It all started with a cross-ocean debate between Tracy and Liu Xin, a well-known female host of China International Television (CGTN), "see you on Thursday" . Last week, Tracy Reagan, a female anchor of the Fox Business Channel in the United States, quoted false data information in an emotional "economic war against China" remarks, claiming that the Sino-US trade imbalance is a "weapon" that the United States must use on China, and attacking China's prosperity is "at the expense of American interests" and "the United States has no choice", only a war. For Tracy's remarks, CGTN female host Liu Xin made a strong refutation in the video comments on the 22nd. Later, Tracy offered to have a debate with "China State Television" on Twitter, and Liu Xin gladly agreed. In the end, the two sides agreed to hold a public debate on the Sino-US trade war at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on May 30 (this Thursday), which was closely watched by audiences from both countries.
Born in New Hampshire, 46, Tracy competed in beauty contests in her early years as Miss New Hampshire. She attended the Conservatory of Music, was admitted to Columbia University, and received a bachelor's degree in history at the age of 28. Since 2001, Tracy has been in the U.S. media sector, working for CBS, NBC Finance Channel and Bloomberg Television. While working for CNBC, she hosted the business news program "Morning Markets of America, which was well received. She was also nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Documentary for a work titled "Against the Tides: The Battle for New Orleans."
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Tracy joined Fox News in 2015, coinciding with the start of the U.S. presidential election; During the Republican primary, she was a member of the first "all-female" candidate debate jury in Fox history. She quickly became the media's gold-medal anchor, owning her own flagship television show, Tracy Reagan Primetime, on Fox Business. One of the main topics of the column is economic topics, and it is from this program that her offensive remarks about China come from this program. According to public information, Tracy Reagan currently earns about $1.5 million a year and is worth about $10 million.
However, Tracy, who is praised by American public opinion as "wisdom and beauty coexist", has caused widespread controversy due to serious lack of professionalism many times in her career. According to the Washington Post, Tracy criticized the system of the Nordic country of Denmark in 2018, saying that everyone in the country is essentially "working for the government" and that no one "wants to go to work"; She criticized the country's higher education, saying: "Not only is university free in Denmark, but it also receives subsidies ... Do you know what such a result is? No one wants to graduate, and everyone stays in school. She also likened Denmark to Venezuela, inappropriately declaring that what the two countries have in common is that they "deprive their citizens of development opportunities."
The astonishing remarks quickly sparked discontent among the Danish side. According to the Danish news outlet Local Newspaper, Tracy's remarks involved in Danish taxation, employment rates and higher education data are all untrue, and the country's finance minister, Jensen, criticized her report as "completely exaggerated" and "grossly lacking credibility", and her views can only represent the "overpolitical nature of the American media". "We work a lot more hours than Americans and are also the country with the most work-life ratio in the world," Jensen said. The senior official even challenged Tracy directly: "If you have the courage to face the facts, you should come to Denmark for yourself." According to official Danish data, at that time, Denmark was better than the United States in terms of employment rate, work efficiency and university attendance, and the country's measures to provide education subsidies for students greatly encouraged children from low-income families to pursue higher education, effectively reducing social inequality, these conclusions are undoubtedly "punching face" for Tracy. The Social Democratic Party of Denmark even made a video to satirize "some rot inside Fox". As if out of desperation, Tracy sent another tweet to clarify, "I didn't mean to say that the situation in Denmark is very similar to the current tragic situation in Venezuela." I just want to point out that a high social welfare policy sustained by high taxes is not a good way out."
In 2013, Tracy also had a grudge with American Academy Award-nominated director Spike Lee. That year, the African-American director used Kickstarter, a well-known public fundraising platform in the United States, to launch a public welfare crowdfunding campaign to try to help the country's vulnerable people realize their dreams, with a fundraising goal of $1.25 million. During the financing period, Spike was a guest on Bloomberg TV and interviewed by Tracy, who said at the beginning that the project should be "offline". According to her "logic", with Spike's wealth, there is no need for crowdfunding to do public welfare. Spike said angrily, "You haven't seen me in your life, how do you know how much money I have?" ”
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During just a few minutes of interviews, Tracy interrupted the guests several times, and Spike at one point angrily said, "Can you let me finish?" The show broke up, and Spike called Tracy purely for "black" him. The US "RadioFacts" website said that Tracy has not done any research at all in this issue, lacks the understanding of the interviewee, and her arrogance, disrespect and unprofessionalism have been criticized by public opinion.
In a previous response, Liu Xin said that Tracy's words were more like speaking for the U.S. government, "like President Trump's spokesman." As a right-wing media in the United States, Fox News itself is a hardcore ally of the Trump administration in the media field, and there is a high degree of compatibility between the two, which can be clearly reflected in Tracy. Since Trump came to power, Tracy has followed the trend of the current administration's policies in her own programs, and has published views such as "Trump's immigration proposal benefits the country and the people" and "Trump is tough on China on trade issues"; When Trump was involved in racial allegations, she personally vigorously defended them.
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