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Locustland | The Obama-Romney foreign policy debate as seen on Sina Weibo

The decision to make China one of the topics in today's debate has captured the keen interest of many Chinese netizens.

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The Obama-Romney foreign policy debate as seen on Sina Weibo

The third and final debate between US presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney takes place today.

With "the rise of China" one of the set topics for the debate and likely to dominate discussion throughout, interest has peaked on Chinese social networking sites; we've pulled some of what is being said on Sina Weibo in real-time and will continue updating this space throughout the duration of the debate.

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'Humour vs Arrogance': The third debate is over. It went smoothly, no fireworks, nothing was said that hasn't been said before. The discussion regarding China only lasted approximately 5 minutes, and again nothing said then wasn't something that hadn't already been said. Overall, it was quite reserved. Even though Romney insisted that he'll stick to his pledge to declare China a currency manipulator on his first day in the White House, he still seemed much more reserved than in the previous debates. You can't help but admire the way Americans lay out all their main foreign policy positions and let voters decide.
'American': Is it me or do Obama and Romney seem to have a more moderate and rational stance on China tonight than in the previous debates? The way Romney keeps trying to explain himself, it feels like he's just going off topic.
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'Stateside Ball': Obama and Romney are debating a response to China's rise. More or less, they're both just saying that the US will make sure China "plays by the rules".
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