Paper Tigers?
a literal English translation of the Chinese phrase zhilaohu (纸老虎／紙老虎). The term refers to something that seems threatening but is ineffectual and unable to withstand challenge. The expression became well known in the West as a slogan used by Mao Zedong's Chinese communist state against the U.S. government, mainly.
Mao Zedong first introduced the idea of paper tigers to Americans in an August 1946 interview with American Journalist Anna Louise Strong.
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