For those of you who can read Chinese (which my guess is very few), Sina.com, Nasdaq-listed and China's top portal web site, has a special
Election coverage web site, too.
And it's top story?
58,000 absentee ballots missing in Florida.
The graph on the left?
The decline in voting in the US since WWII.
There are millions of young Chinese people who are turning to information about US democracy, hoping that one day China can be more like America--- or are they?
The Carter Center has been working on village elections in China for years now. Is there an outside group monitoring the US elections?
This is obviously not an excuse for China's one-party rule. But it's important to understand that in today's interconnected world, the best way we as Americans can spread democracy is to be a model of democracy.