Editor’s note for Friday, November 6, 2020

My thoughts today:

Central Chinese state media is reporting on the U.S. election sparingly, and with a sober neutral tone — see, for example, Xinhua News Agency’s latest reports, in English or Chinese.

But state-owned news organizations that are not considered authoritative sources, like the nationalist tabloid Global Times, are critical and sometimes mocking. See, for example, that newspaper’s big opinion piece today: Election pushes U.S. divide past tipping point (in Chinese here).

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Our word of the day is Trump team’s ballot-counting lawsuit rejected by two states (特朗普团队计票诉讼被两州驳回 tèlǎngpǔ tuánduì jìpiào sùsòng bèi liǎng zhōu bóhuí), which is a trending topic on social media platform Weibo at the time we’re sending this email.

—Jeremy Goldkorn, Editor-in-Chief