Posted on 02/07/2020 7:33:01 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
To some Americans, Iowa, a rural state in the middle of the US, is dismissively thought of as "fly-over country".
Yet the Hawkeye state is well-known in China. Chinese President Xi Jinping has visited twice - before he took office in 2012, and in an earlier stay as a low-level local official on a 1985 trip to study farming technology.
Iowa was once again a destination for Chinese visitors last week, though those who descended upon the state were not there to study soybeans, but democracy in America.
Amid its chaos, young "democracy tourists" learnt first-hand that it can be a messy way to govern.
The results of Iowa's caucuses were delayed for days because of a technical failure, causing political uproar in the US.
But the Chinese students didn't seem to mind.
Over the weekend leading up to the 3 February contest - the first step in selecting the candidates who will stand in the November presidential election - they could be spotted at a rally for Andrew Yang, a Democratic hopeful.
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If those Chinese democracy tourists went to Iowa to witness democracy at the democrat run caucus I’m afraid there will never be any hope of democracy in China.
What they witnessed is the all too typical democrat cluster f__k in all its ingloriousness.
They should go to San Francisco to see true democracy. It’s all over the streets and sidewalks.
[Mr Hu viewed politics as a game that everyone in the US plays - a game with high participation but low efficiency, given America’s partisan gridlock.
But he still appreciates it. “The US is a great country,” he said, “because it successfully created a system that lets everyone be a part of it.”]
That’s how you get into politics in China.
[That’s how you get into politics in China.]
they must have felt right at home
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