US Election: Global Times Reprints Modified LA Times Story
The Global Times reprinted a story from the Los Angeles Times with some interesting omissions. The original title ran “China watches U.S. elections with bemusement.” The Global Times version translates...
View ArticleJohn McCain, Barack Obama Outline China Views Exclusively Through AmCham-China
U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have outlined their China policies in detail in China Brief, the monthly magazine of the American Chamber of Commerce, which will be published...
View ArticleFor Chinese, US Election Is ‘Entertaining’
From NBC News World Blog: Last week, three books about Barack Obama were published in China – to little fanfare. Despite being prominently displayed inside one of Beijing’s larger bookstores, the books...
View ArticleChina and the First McCain-Obama Debate
Presidential candidates Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama had their first debate Friday night at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, Mississippi. Though scheduled to be a debate...
View ArticleShen Dingli: China Tangled Up In Red, White And Blue
Written by Shen Dingli, professor and director of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University, from Asia Times Online: China is keenly following the Democratic and Republican tickets in the...
View ArticleVideo: Election ’08 and the Challenge of China
The University of Southern California U.S. China Institute has produced a documentary about the role of China in the U.S. presidential elections: The U.S.-China relationship is complicated and is vital...
View ArticleChina Wants Stable Ties With US After Election
From AFP: China is watching the US presidential election closely, and whether the winner is Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain, the priority for Beijing is to maintain stable ties with...
View ArticleObama An Overwhelming Hit With Chinese: Poll
From China Daily: Barack Obama may be leading the US presidential race against John McCain by only about 10 percent in his country, but he enjoys a much higher rating in China. A Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby...
View ArticleHu Shuli: Advice for the Next U.S. President
From Caijing Magazine: The U.S. presidential election was just days away when this edition of Caijing went to press. Opinion polls showed Democratic candidate Barrack Obama leading Republican John...
View ArticleMcCain Tilts Towards Taiwan, Obama May Favor China
From Reuters: Republican presidential candidate John McCain would seek to defend Taiwan and play hard ball with China if he comes to office, but Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama would further...
View ArticleObama’s Remarks on China are Rhetoric, Some Say
The Los Angeles Times reports that many in China view recent remarks by Senator and presidential contender Barack Obama calling China a “currency manipulator” as nothing more than political posturing...
View ArticleObama’s Race, Youth Welcomed in Worried China (Updated)
From Reuters: China welcomed Barack Obama as a youthful president-elect with the energy to tackle the financial crisis now threatening its economy and an ethnic heritage that could help America reach...
View ArticleBreakfast in Beijing
On the New Yorker’s website, Evan Osnos covers an American election-watching party in Beijing: “Obama gives greater confidence to people of the Third World,” Yang said, after the photo. “We, the black,...
View ArticlePosing Questions about the New US President
Southern Weekly outdid itself in promoting US-China understanding this week. They hosted a Q&A panel- composed of six American intellectuals and one Chinese- about the direction President Barack...
View ArticleThe Day After: Obama and China (Updated)
On Dissent’s website, Daniel Bell, a professor at Tsinghua University, writes about a lack of enthusiasm for Obama’s election that he has seen among his students: So why aren’t Chinese students and...
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