{"id":159744,"date":"2026-11-04T07:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T07:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159744"},"modified":"2026-11-04T07:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T07:11:12","slug":"fake-democracy-or-a-plus-for-beijing-chinese-internet-users-on-the-us-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159744","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Fake democracy\u2019 or a plus for Beijing? Chinese internet users on the US midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFollow the SCMP\u2019s live coverage here<br \/>\nChinese social media users have voiced mixed views on the US midterm elections, criticising American politics while debating the implications of President Donald Trump\u2019s political future for China.<br \/>\nHeld on Tuesday, the midterm elections saw Democrats win control of both chambers of the US Congress, taking the House of Representatives and the Senate from the Republicans.<br \/>\nDemocrats reached the 218-seat threshold needed for a House majority and also secured&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3373236\/fake-democracy-or-plus-beijing-chinese-internet-users-us-midterms\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostFollow the SCMP\u2019s live coverage here Chinese social media users have voiced mixed views on the US midterm elections, criticising American politics while debating&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}