Americans in China soak up the atmosphere

Many Americans in China cast their absentee ballots long ago and were spending this morning glued to TV and computer screens monitoring US election returns with fingers crossed.

"Living in China has made me pay more attention to voting and politics," Californian Sunnia Ko, who has lived in Hong Kong and Beijing for five years, said.

"I think we take it for granted back home because we're inundated by the media but being overseas, I have more access to media that I choose."