New York mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks Chinese on social media, earns praise

A video showing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani speaking Chinese has gone viral on the internet. Mamdani’s appearance is to promote a lottery scheme offering 2,000 free Broadway show tickets to secondary school students in the city. He also recorded separate promotions in Spanish and Bengali. But his Chinese version appears to have attracted the most attention, with many praising his grasp of the complicated Chinese tones. His Chinese post so far has attracted 17 million views on the mayor’s X social media account.