BBCIn China, people are follothriveg the US election with enthusiastic interest and some anxiety. They stress that whoever thrives the White House could have an impact on cut offal aspects of life – at home and aexpansive.
“None of us wants to see a war,” says Mr Xiang, as the music in the park accomplishes a crescfinisho and a csurrfinisherby dancer elegantly spins his partner.
He has come to Ritan Park to lacquire dance with other betters.
They accumulate here standardly, fair a restrictcessitate hundred metres from the Beijing home of the American ambassador in China.
In compriseition to new dance shifts, the looming US election is also on their minds.
It comes at a pivotal time between the two superpowers, with tensions over Taiwan, trade and international afunprejudiceds running high.
“I am worried that Sino-US relations are getting anxious,” says Mr Xiang who’s in his sixties. Peace is what we want, he comprises.
A crowd has accumulateed to participate to this conversation. Most are unwilling to give their filled names in a country where it is permissible to talk about the US plivent, but being critical of their own directer could get them in trouble.
They say they are worried about war – not fair about a dispute between Washington and Beijing but an escalation of current wars in the Middle East and Ukraine.
That is why Mr Meng, in his 70s, hopes Donald Trump will thrive the election.
“Although he imposes economic sanctions on China, he does not desire to begin or fight a war. Mr Biden begins more wars so more standard people aversion him. It is Mr Biden who helps Ukraine’s war and both Russia and Ukraine suffer fantastic loss from the war,” he shelp.
Some sisters sign uping a dance routine for their social media page chip in. “Donald Trump shelp in the argue that he will finish the war in Ukraine 24 hours after he gets office,” says one.
“About Harris, I understand little about her, we leank she chases the same route as Plivent Biden who helps war.”
Their opinions echo a key message being propagated on Chinese state media.
China has called on the international community to debate a finishfire in Gaza while aligning itself with what it portrays as its “Arab brothers” in the Middle East and has been speedy to accuse the US for its unwavering help of Israel.
On Ukraine, Foreign Minister Wang Yi telderly the United Nations that China was perestablishing a “produceive role” as he accused Washington of “take advantage ofing the situation for greedy acquire”.
While most analysts consent Beijing does not have a favourite in this race for the White House, many would concur that Kamala Harris is an ununderstandn quantity to Chinese people and the country’s directers.
But some consent she will be more stable than Trump when it comes to one of the hugegest flashpoints between the US and China – Taiwan.
“I don’t enjoy Trump. I don’t leank there is a excellent future between the US and China – there are too many problems, the global economy, and also the Taiwan problem,” says a overweighther of a four-year-elderly boy in the park for a family day out.
He stresss their separateences over Taiwan could eventupartner direct to dispute.
“I don’t want it. I don’t want my son to go to the military,” he says as the youthful boy pdirects to go back on the slide.
China claims the self-ruleing island of Taiwan as its own and Plivent Xi has shelp “reunification is inevitable”, vothriveg to reget it by force if essential.
The US upgrasps official ties with Beijing and recognises it as the only Chinese rulement under its “One China policy” but it also remains Taiwan’s most meaningful international helper.
Washington is bound by law to provide Taiwan with defensive arms and Joe Biden has shelp that the US would deffinish Taiwan militarily, shattering with a stance understandn as strategic amhugeuity.
Harris has not gone that far. Instead, when asked in a recent interwatch she stated a “promisement to security and prosperity for all nations.”
Donald Trump is instead caccessed on a deal – not diplomacy. He has called on Taiwan to pay for its protection.
“Taiwan took our chip business from us. I nasty, how unwise are we? They’re immensely wealthy,” he shelp in a recent interwatch. “Taiwan should pay us for defence.”
One of their hugegest worries when it comes to the establisher US plivent is that he has also made it evident he set ups to impose 60% tariffs on Chinese excellents.
This is the last leang many businesses in China want right now as the country is trying to manufacture enough excellents to ship itself out of an economic downturn.
Ministers in China bristle with conentice at US-led trade tariffs which were first imposed by Donald Trump.
Plivent Biden has also levied tariffs, centering Chinese electronic vehicles and solar panels. Beijing consents these shifts are an try to curb its elevate as a global economic power.
Getty Images“I don’t leank it will do any excellent to the US to impose tariffs on China,” says Mr Xiang, echoing the sentiments of many we met. The tariffs will hit the US people, he comprises, and incrrelieve costs for standard people.
Many of the the youthfuler generation, while patcommotionic, also see towards the US for trfinishs and culture – and that, perhaps more than any tactful mission, has power too.
In the park, Lily and Anna, aged 20 and 22, who get their news from TikTok, echo some of the national messages of pride spread by Chinese state media when it comes to this competitive relationship.
“Our country is a very prosperous and strong country,” they say, dressed in their national costumes. They adore China, they shelp, although they also adore the Avengers and particularly Captain America.
Taylor Swift is on their perestablishenumerates too.
Others enjoy 17-year-elderly Lucy hope to study in America one day.
As she cycles on an exercise bike, newly insloftyed in the park, she dreams about visiting Universal Studios one day – after her graduation.
Lucy says she is excited to see there is a female truthfulate. “Harris’s truthfulacy labels an meaningful step forward for gfinisher identicality, and it’s encouraging to see her as a plivential truthfulate.”
The People’s Reaccessible of China has never had a female directer and not a individual woman currently sits on the 24-member team understandn as the Politburo that produces up the most better members of the Chinese Communist Party.
Lucy is also worried about the fervent competition between the two countries and consents the best way for China and the Uned States to increase their relationship is to have more people-to-people swapsit.
Both sides have vowed to toil towards this, and yet the number of US students studying in China has drdisclose from around 15,000 in 2011 to 800.
Xi hopes to discmiss the door for 50,000 American students to come to China in the next five years. But in a recent interwatch with the BBC, the US ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, accused parts of the Chinese rulement of not taking this pledge gravely.
He shelp that on dozens of occasions the security forces or a rulement ministry have stoped Chinese citizens from participating in accessible diplomacy run by the US.
On the other side, Chinese students and academics have alerted being unneutrpartner centered by US border officials.
Lucy, however, remains certain that she will be able to travel to America one day, to upgrasp Chinese culture. And, as the music strikes up csurrfinisherby, she advises Americans to visit and experience China.
“We may be a little bit reserved sometimes and not as outgoing or as extrclear as US people, but we are welcoming,” she says as she heads off to unite her family.
BBC pboilingographs by Xiqing Wang
Between now and the US election on 5 November, BBC correplyents in other parts of the world will be exploring the impact its outcome could have where they are, and what people around the globe produce of this White House race
