By Dingding Chen
A Hillary Clinton presidency would certainly present some challenges, but nothing U.S.-China relations can’t withstand.
Now that Hillary Clinton has announced her decision to run for the presidency of the United States in 2016, the interesting question for Sino-U.S. relations is would her success mean a tougher U.S. approach to China?
Many Chinese pundits and netizens seem to be worried about such a possibility. TheGlobal Times did an online survey asking Chinese netizens’ about their views of Hillary Clinton and 95 percent of the respondents had negative views of her. Because the Global Times and its readers tend toward the more nationalistic and patriotic end of the spectrum, we should not take this result at face value. Nonetheless, many others (here and here) in China share these negative views toward Clinton.
Why is this so? Is this a fair perception of Clinton? Regardless of the accuracy of such views, three main reasons have been cited to support the negative view of Hillary Clinton.
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