Chinese Media Says US Democracy in 'Crisis'
Chinese Media Says US Democracy in 'Crisis'
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BEIJING - Donald Trump officially next US president. And that's alarmed China. Chinese state media outlets are casting the US election as the embodiment of America’s democracy in crisis in contrast to China’s perceived stability under authoritarian rule.
The state run Xinhua News Agency says the campaign has highlighted that, in its words, “the majority of Americans are rebelling against the U.S.’s political class and financial elites.”
The official Communist Party newspaper, People’s Daily says in a commentary that the presidential election reveals an “ill democracy.”
On Tuesday, the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV ran man-on-the-street interviews with unidentified American voters in which they expressed disgust with the system and dissatisfaction with both candidates.
Chinese state media and government-backed commentators are continuing to signal Beijing’s preference for a Donald Trump win in the US presidential election.
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Like Russia, China is seen as favoring Trump because he appears less willing to confront China’s newly robust foreign policy, particularly in the South China Sea. Clinton, by contrast, is disliked in Beijing for having steered the U.S. “pivot” to Asia aimed at strengthening US engagement with the region, particularly in the military sphere.
“From a comprehensive view, it would make it easier for China to cope if Trump is elected. This is because under the policy line advocated by Obama and Clinton, the political and military frictions between China and the U.S. will be more frequent,” Mei Xinyu says in Communist Party newspaper, Global Times.
Meanwhile, US. Ambassador to China Max Baucus says “the world’s most important relationship” between Beijing and Washington will remain stable regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election.
Asked by a Chinese reporter about Trump’s proposal for a 45 percent tariff on Chinese goods imported in the US, Baucus says that “people say a lot of things in the heat of a campaign that are not quite as feasible as they think when they’re elected.”
Trump has also pledged to withdraw US support for the Paris climate change agreement that was reached largely through hard negotiating with China.
Baucus says he doesn’t believe the two countries would stop collaborating on issues already agreed to, including climate change, containing North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and reaching a political settlement in Afghanistan.
“The issues are the same, the good faith is the same,” in his words,
Donald Trump has sensationally won the White House – taking Pennsylvania to secure 274 electoral college votes in a humiliating defeat for Hillary Clinton and the entire American political class.
The state fell at 1.40am, with its 20 votes putting Trump over the edge. Clinton was in hiding as the result came through.
He won Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina and Florida, as well as a series of states he was predicted to win. Clinton had little to show for her campaigning, with Virginia and Nevada offering little consolation.
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As her party fell flat and supporters streamed away in tears, she was locked in a hotel suite just round the corner from Trump
Tower, protected behind a wall of minders and with aides who refused to speak to the press.
At Trump Tower, the candidate retired to his apartment to 'take a moment' with this wife. At his planned victory celebration, supporters chanted 'lock her up' as states after state fell.
The big breakthrough was the fall of Florida. As a Florida victory looked imminent, young Trump fans chanted at giant TVs: 'Call it! Call it! Call it!'
Then it fell - Clinton had poured millions into the state, but it was not enough. Next came Ohio, with 18 electoral college votes.
As vote-counters put the Buckeye state in Trump's win column, and took it away from Democrat Hillary Clinton – President Obama won it twice – the New York Times' live presidential forecast gave the billionaire builder an 95 per cent chance of winning the White House.
That grew to '>95%', its highest possible number.
Then came North Carolina with 15 votes going to Trump. When its result was set in stone, the Manhattan ballroom where Trump supporters gathered Tuesday night erupted in screams of 'USA! USA!'
As the clock ticked towards midnight, Georgia fell, with another 16 votes. Aides to Clinton, who hoped to become America's first female president, told Fox News that she was 'expecting a long night'.
The state run Xinhua News Agency says the campaign has highlighted that, in its words, “the majority of Americans are rebelling against the U.S.’s political class and financial elites.”
The official Communist Party newspaper, People’s Daily says in a commentary that the presidential election reveals an “ill democracy.”
On Tuesday, the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV ran man-on-the-street interviews with unidentified American voters in which they expressed disgust with the system and dissatisfaction with both candidates.
Chinese state media and government-backed commentators are continuing to signal Beijing’s preference for a Donald Trump win in the US presidential election.
Like Russia, China is seen as favoring Trump because he appears less willing to confront China’s newly robust foreign policy, particularly in the South China Sea. Clinton, by contrast, is disliked in Beijing for having steered the U.S. “pivot” to Asia aimed at strengthening US engagement with the region, particularly in the military sphere.
“From a comprehensive view, it would make it easier for China to cope if Trump is elected. This is because under the policy line advocated by Obama and Clinton, the political and military frictions between China and the U.S. will be more frequent,” Mei Xinyu says in Communist Party newspaper, Global Times.
Meanwhile, US. Ambassador to China Max Baucus says “the world’s most important relationship” between Beijing and Washington will remain stable regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election.
Asked by a Chinese reporter about Trump’s proposal for a 45 percent tariff on Chinese goods imported in the US, Baucus says that “people say a lot of things in the heat of a campaign that are not quite as feasible as they think when they’re elected.”
Trump has also pledged to withdraw US support for the Paris climate change agreement that was reached largely through hard negotiating with China.
Baucus says he doesn’t believe the two countries would stop collaborating on issues already agreed to, including climate change, containing North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and reaching a political settlement in Afghanistan.
“The issues are the same, the good faith is the same,” in his words,
Donald Trump has sensationally won the White House – taking Pennsylvania to secure 274 electoral college votes in a humiliating defeat for Hillary Clinton and the entire American political class.
The state fell at 1.40am, with its 20 votes putting Trump over the edge. Clinton was in hiding as the result came through.
He won Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina and Florida, as well as a series of states he was predicted to win. Clinton had little to show for her campaigning, with Virginia and Nevada offering little consolation.
As her party fell flat and supporters streamed away in tears, she was locked in a hotel suite just round the corner from Trump
Tower, protected behind a wall of minders and with aides who refused to speak to the press.
At Trump Tower, the candidate retired to his apartment to 'take a moment' with this wife. At his planned victory celebration, supporters chanted 'lock her up' as states after state fell.
The big breakthrough was the fall of Florida. As a Florida victory looked imminent, young Trump fans chanted at giant TVs: 'Call it! Call it! Call it!'
Then it fell - Clinton had poured millions into the state, but it was not enough. Next came Ohio, with 18 electoral college votes.
As vote-counters put the Buckeye state in Trump's win column, and took it away from Democrat Hillary Clinton – President Obama won it twice – the New York Times' live presidential forecast gave the billionaire builder an 95 per cent chance of winning the White House.
That grew to '>95%', its highest possible number.
Then came North Carolina with 15 votes going to Trump. When its result was set in stone, the Manhattan ballroom where Trump supporters gathered Tuesday night erupted in screams of 'USA! USA!'
As the clock ticked towards midnight, Georgia fell, with another 16 votes. Aides to Clinton, who hoped to become America's first female president, told Fox News that she was 'expecting a long night'.
(rnz)
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