Follow the SCMP’s live coverage here: High voter turnout as first US midterm results test Trump’s grip on Congress The United States’ midterm elections are unlikely to deliver a “disruptive” shock to relations between Beijing and Washington despite potential volatility over the issue of Taiwan, according to a prominent Chinese expert in US studies. Chen Dongxiao, president of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, said any shift in the make-up of the US Congress would mainly…



No. US internal and especially foreign policies are not influenced by ‘voting’ - at all, and haven’t been for ages if ever. Scientific papers have been presented, and we can see (try ‘Brian Berletic’) that US foreign policies are the same no matter what side of their Oligarch uni party have the administration. US is an Oligarchy and is run in their interest - not ‘the people’. There is provably no ‘Democracy’ in US (or much in other parts of the US dominated hemisphere)…