Overseas students weigh on 'bizarre' election
As a majority of Americans feel turned off by the tenor of the presidential campaign, Chinese students in the United States have been watching it closely and have no shortage of observations.
Calling the presidential campaign "the most bizarre and polarized" in US history, Liu Tianyuan, a senior majoring in finance at University of Texas-Austin McCombs School of Business, said the race between Romney and Obama four years ago seemed like "an old boring history textbook" compared to this year's contest.
"Instead of campaigning on practical policies and visionary goals, both candidates have heavily relied on tactics aimed at destroying the other candidate, constantly delivering messages like 'Never Hillary' and 'Dump Trump," said Liu, who came from Wuhan, Hubei province, to the US in 2010.
