The Atlantic published an article a couple of days ago on an issue apparently now trending in China inspired by the U.S. election: what if there were a popular election in China between the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)? To quote
The Atlantic:
The "election" began in earnest on November 8 when a popular wit with the handle "Pretending to be in New York" (@假装在纽约) asked what might happen if China had a democratic election. He wrote to his 200,000-plus followers, "If China also had a national election, Zhejiang, Chiang Kai-shek's birthplace, Fujian, and Taiwan would for sure go deep blue [for the KMT], while other southeast coastal provinces would also be a huge blue heartland; northern, northeast China and other revolutionary bases for the CCP would certainly go red; mid- and south-western China would be the dead-heat swing states. Ready to be phone-banked and canvassed!"
Many are apparently criticizing
"Pretending to be in New York," though, because they think he or she has over designated CCP areas. Of course, no one can know that one way or the other. The question, though,
of where the political divisions lie in relation to geography is an interesting one (well, interesting to me ...).
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