While both Obama and Romney claimed to be tough on China, they may not be aware that many Chinese across the Pacific Ocean were paying close attention to this year’s election race.
A survey done by the Pew Research Center indicated that over one third of Chinese paid close attention to the 2012 presidential election in the U.S. in comparison with 17 percent in 2008.
On the eve of the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in which the arrangement for the next administration will be announced officially, the presidential election of the United States, often described as a hypocritical game about money in ideological propaganda, caught much more attention than China’s decennial political transition on Sina Weibo, one of the most popular social networking websites in China.