fredag 1. november 2024

American democracy ‘messy,’ Chinese state media says

As China watches the countdown to the U.S. presidential election results, state media has been hammering home the point that American democracy is messy, violent and encourages extreme behaviors on both sides, while ordinary people seem to support Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump in roughly equal measure, commentators told Radio Free Asia.

“In the past three months, Trump has survived multiple assassination attempts,” the state-run China Daily newspaper said in an Oct. 29 commentary. “Harris’s campaign office in Arizona was also shot at and vandalized.”

“Political violence is on the rise as polarization and public opinion divisions intensify ahead of the election,” the paper said, adding that there are widespread fears of political violence that could follow even when results are known.