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by adventured 4417 days ago
China cares a great deal about Western politics. Their two biggest markets are the United States and Europe.

Check out the Chinese support of Hillary and Bill Clinton.

There has been a ton of illegal Chinese money all over US elections for decades. Read up on the scandals from the 1990's revolving around this, or the Chinese money that flowed to Hillary in 2008.

Obama.com is (was?) even owned by a money bundler out of China.

Or check out the Chinese hackers that targeted the Romney & Obama campaigns.

http://www.latimes.com/la-na-donors19oct19-story.html#page=1

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/04/04/china.clin...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/08/the-illegal...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/10/hillary-clin...

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/4264134/ns/nbc_nightly_news_with_b...

http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/06/18807056-...

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/10/08/exposin...