Watching the Republican Debates in China

A sample reaction from a Chinese blogger: “These old men look terrible.”

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• Zheping Huang and Heather Timmons

The U.S. held another Republican presidential debate last night to help American voters choose between the union-busting tactics of Scott Walker, the anti-universal-health-care platform of Ted Cruz, and the anti-climate-change stance of Ben Carson.
But outside of the U.S., and particularly in China, the Republican party’s tangle of candidates can loosely be classified in three groups: Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, and everyone else. The last Republican debates were translated and broadcast in China, and Chinese netizens mostly found the candidates wanting. (They also overwhelmingly don’t like Hillary Clinton.)http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/china-republican-debate-primary-trump/405877/