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China may be quiet on US election but state media is drawing attention to pockets of chaos in America
- Focus has been on conflict and controversy, including footage on CCTV of Trump supporters trying to break into a polling station
- Social media posts show that people in China are divided in their opinions about the candidates
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While Beijing has tiptoed around the subject of the US election and the ongoing vote count, some Chinese observers and state media have not been shy about speaking their minds.
On China’s heavily censored internet, much attention has been given to possible chaos in US society after President Donald Trump threatened to ask the Supreme Court to stop vote counting in states where Democratic contender Joe Biden could gain an edge.
In a video post, Shen Yi, an international politics professor at Fudan University, said the US had changed so much that its founding fathers would be disappointed.
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“The founding fathers of the United States certainly did not hope the US would end up as it is today when they set up the system,” said Shen in the video posted on nationalistic media outlet guancha.cn.
“Is there anything wrong with the operation of the system?” he asked. “Can we just blame Trump or a few politicians for that?”
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