"I'm Chinese and I'm American and I love this country. I heard all these degrading things about China this and China that and it just doesn't make me feel good." more ›

Late Saturday evening, Hu Xijin (胡锡进), the Editor-in-Chief of the Global Times, sent out the following tweet on his Sina Weibo account: "Today, the Global Times conducted an online poll asking netizens, 'Do you think a western-style general elections will lead China to chaos?' Foreign forces interfered with the poll. Between 1700 and 2100 hours, responses from outside of China increased to 2639 votes, representing 84% of the votes for that time period. Foreign users of Global Times normally account for under 10%, and for online polls, it's usually under 8%. 84% is a highly abnormal figure. Foreign forces have tried to control the results of this poll and interfered with the fairness of the poll. We have closed the poll at 21:11." more ›

And what's more you can vote for us! Yep, That's have opened voting for their annual awards with a whole range of categories from Best Band to Shanghai Hero. There's also a Best of the Web category where this humble blog has received a nomination. Click here to get voting. more ›

The Economist has opened up the vote to its readers worldwide to see who'd be the next US president if the whole world could vote. China, as it turns out, is "strong Obama" — 83% of respondents here voted Obama and 17% McCain. With more than 10,000 votes cast, it looks like the whole world is voting overwhelmingly in Obama's favour. When we last checked, 9,120 votes went to Obama while McCain managed 270 votes, defeating his opponent with a small margin in such enlightened states as Cuba, Congo, Sudan, Algeria, Namibia and Macedonia. Iraq turned out to be the only "strong McCain" constituency (thanks to all his military buddies). We think there‘s a lesson to be gleaned from this exercise: The Economist's readers are just not mavericky enough.
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