‘Every reason to fear’: World watches US election | Semafor

Chinese state media has been remarkably silent on US politics in the run-up to the election, but recent days have seen broadcasters start to criticize the integrity of the American democratic process as a “money-burning event” characterized by “unprecedented chaos,” Bloomberg reported.

The Global Times, a state-funded outlet, opened a headline for an article on the polls with: “Amid fears for violence, US election day voting begins…”

Although China hasn’t explicitly commented on the policy positions of either candidate, The Global Times published an editorial arguing that the expansion of US tariffs risked transforming a conflict with Beijing “into a broader trade war against the world.”