07
Mar
Why all the interest [in the US Republican primaries]? Well, China has its own elections of a sort—even though the C.C.P. doesn’t lose much sleep on election night—but Chinese political junkies have to get their fix somewhere, so they get a certain vicarious buzz from watching the results abroad. As one Sina wag put it [on weibo, China’s counterpart to Twitter]:
‘Today is the U.S. mid-term election. With advances in voting-system technology, the results will come back the same night. But this technology is still behind China’s: We know the results even before the elections.’
From CC contributor Evan Osnos’s “The Communist Party and the Republicans” post.
