An unsigned editorial in Global Times yesterday states that the U.S. election results may not come out immediately, due to their being contested, or even rejected, which “has aggravated the sense of stalemate” in this election.
The Chinese people are interested, but the results are much less relevant to their interests. This is because today, the U.S.’s new China policy has been shaped at the strategic level, and “China-U.S. relations will enter a fairly long period of stalemate. The room for their relations to continue to deteriorate is shrinking, yet it is very unlikely that the relations will warm up. The idea that the U.S. election may become a key point in China-U.S. relations is widely regarded as naïve.”
Trump, the editorial says, has a nickname among Chinese netizens, “Chuan Jianguo,” which literally means “Trump builds China.” It explains: “The more we move forward, when we look back at the impact brought about by the U.S.’ drastic changes in its China policy, the more we will believe that such helplessness is exactly the kind of reflection that China needs most — China was forced to go all out for prosperity. If it were not for the U.S.’ suppression, Chinese people may have always built our industries on the basis of American semiconductors, ready to suffer from the ‘earthquake’ manipulated by Washington at any time. ... Thus, the nickname ‘Chuan Jianguo’ represents an ability we must have to turn crisis into opportunity.”
