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Chapter One The Bad and the Ugly
Chinese Perceptions of the 2016 US Presidential Election
Zhang Guoxi
This chapter examines Chinese perceptions of the 2016 US presidential election, an event of global significance that has generated unusual interest and concern among both China’s elites and its general public. The contest for the White House in 2016 was characterized by one Chinese media outlet as the reality version of Game of Thrones.1 The two major contestants,
