@lemon lover: Anthropogenic global warming, aka, loosely and formally, as referred to as global warming is debatable. "Climate change," however is not. The world's climate has been changing for billions of years and will continue to do so.

Creating a dubious theory like AGW and holding it to be a truth is absurd. Renaming it "climate change" is simply painting the horse a different color.

As for Trump. I find him only slightly, very slightly, less obnoxious that any of the Clintons.

I'm more interested in how educated Chinese viewed the elections. I was approached as the university faculty was incredulous that Trump could actually be a candidate, much less have an opportunity to be the next POTUS. Even I'm was surprised. I thought Hillary would win for sure, as they seemed able to manipulate and spin the government incredulously.

I guess the US electoral system actually works - that's actually encouraging for me. The media, meanwhile, is gonna absolutely love this guy - he's SO flamboyant and bombastic. Some of you may recall a former POTUS Gerald Ford and great man in his own right, who was more famous for being clumsy. I'm looking forwards to President Elect Trumps foot-in-mouth event!

The next question - which foreign country will he visit first? This usually indicates the USA's economic focus.

The UK's PM Theresa May visited India first, as opposed to China.

@Michael2015

She visited Italy first.

How do educated Chinese feel?
Well I have seen commentators say that Trump will be seen as weakening a major rival, and that is always welcome.
A weaker dollar will also mean that you can buy a bigger house in the US, for the same amount of capital outflow from China.

I agree that Trump will, potentially, weaken the US. But this would be, in my opinion a function of his spastic personality as he slips into his bully mode. His unwarranted belief in his abilities in economics and negotiating when it comes to China will be tested.

While Trump does have the opportunity to confront China, his personality will make him ineffective unless he drops his New Yorker attitude. Unless he understands 孙子 (长卿) and 围棋 he will be snookered as are most Americans.

I think the Chinese would welcome dealing with this impulsive blowhard.

Clinton, on the other hand, would merely negotiate the best price then sellout.

Trump and Clinton: New meaning to "Two sides of the same coin."

@tigertiger: When you say "weaker dollar," I take it to mean weaker USD against the CYN. I would suggest the CYN is currently overvalued by 10-15% and should weaken against the USD.

The, now politicized, FED is about to begin increasing US interest rates (to increase the US cost of debt service) to preempt Trump's idiotic debt reduction nonsense. That alone should make the USD stronger.

Napoleon, to imagine that the government of one country does not influence the lives of people everywhere makes it hard for us to understand the presence of foreign troops, international money interests, the international exploitation of labor by capital, the level of the stock market, the many incidents of state violence outside the borders of the state, the presence in various countries of hundreds of thousands of refugees from war and poverty...or maybe, somehow, none of this has anything to do with the government of the US?

We are involved in a historical sea change, and none of us are going to like it.