China’s Li Says U.S. Presidential Poll Results Won’t Affect Ties

BEIJING – China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang said on Wednesday “no matter who comes into the White House, the underlying trend (of relations with the U.S.) will not change. China-U.S. relations have always been moving forward.”

Despite ongoing disputes, some quite acute, between the two countries, common interests between China and the U.S. were expanding, Li stressed at a press conference at the end of the annual session of the Chinese parliament, adding that China had become the U.S.’s largest trading partner in 2015.

Primaries and caucuses, part of the nominating process of the U.S. presidential elections, are currently being held in several U.S. states.

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump won the Republican primary in Florida, forcing rival Marco Rubio to quit the presidential race, while presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, from the Democrat Party, beat out her closest rival Bernie Sanders.

Foreign Leaders Ask for Clinton’s Support to Stop Trump in Presidential Race

WASHINGTON – The Democratic candidate to the White House, Hillary Clinton, has said that foreign leaders have offered her their support to stop business tycoon and presidential candidate Donald Trump.

“I’m having foreign leaders ask if they can endorse me to stop Donald Trump,” said Clinton at a forum in Ohio organized by CNN.

“I am receiving messages from leaders,” confirmed the former Secretary of State and favored Democratic Party candidate for President of the United States.

When asked the names of the leaders, Clinton mentioned the Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, who has expressed his opinion publicly, but she declined to give more names citing that they were private communications.

The former first lady warned of “how dangerous a Donald Trump presidency would be, for our standing, for our safety, for the peace of the world.”

The controversial businessman has dominated the Republican campaign with populist, xenophobic, nationalistic and bellicose speeches in international politics, yet is likely to achieve the Republican nomination for the White House.

“I think whoever goes up against Donald Trump better be ready, and I feel I am the best prepared and ready Democratic candidate,” Clinton said, in front of her rival in the race for the nomination of her party, Senator Bernie Sanders.

Republicans and Democrats will held next primary election on March 15 in Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio.

Chinese Press Warns U.S. against Electing “Racist” Trump as President

BEIJING – In a strongly worded editorial on Monday, China’s official media criticized the rise of Trump in the race to the White House, relying on “abusively racist and extremist” rants, and warned of severe consequences if he is elected the next U.S. president.

“The rise of Trump has opened a Pandora’s box in U.S. society,” says the editorial published by the People’s Daily and the Global Times newspapers, two mouthpieces of the Communist Party of China.

“Instead of pointing fingers at other countries for their so-called nationalism and tyranny, the U.S. had better watch itself from becoming a source of destructive forces against world peace,” it says while underlining Trump’s “narcissist and inflammatory” character.

“His job was basically to act as a clown to attract more voters’ attention to the GOP. However, knocking down most other promising candidates, the clown is now the biggest dark horse,” it added.

It also says the Republican Party is caught between selecting a populist and politically incorrect Trump as its candidate, which would compromise the values of the party, or select someone else, which could lead Trump to run as an independent and split the conservative vote.

“Fist fights among voters who have different political orientations is quite common in developing countries during election seasons. Now, a similar show is shockingly staged in the U.S., which boasts of one of the most developed and mature democratic election systems,” the editorial said referring to violent incidents from last Friday, when Trump’s supporters and rival groups had clashed in Chicago.

“The rise of a racist in the U.S. political arena worries the whole world,” the editorial said, adding that the Western press has already compared Trump to dictators like Mussolini and Hitler, who also came to power after winning elections.

“Most analysts believe the U.S. election system will stop Trump from being president eventually. The process will be scary but not dangerous,” it concludes.

Former Mexican Mayor Arrested for Ordering Attack on Journalist

MEXICO CITY – Former Silao Mayor Enrique Benjamin Solis Arzola was arrested by prosecutors in Guanajuato, a state in central Mexico, for his alleged role in the attack on journalist Karla Silva in September 2014, the Articulo 19 press rights organization said.

“The signatory organizations celebrate the capture by the state Attorney General’s Office and we expect the highest standard of justice on the part of the state courts,” Articulo 19 said in a statement.

Silva was savagely beaten by several men in retaliation for a story published in the daily El Heraldo about mismanagement in the city.

“The physical attack endangered her life and irreparably affected her personal and psychosocial development as a woman and a journalist,” the press rights group said.

Photographs during the attack showed the reporter with a bloody face and a gash on her forehead.

Several of the assailants were arrested on assault, harassment and robbery charges.

There were indications from the start that Solis Arzola, a member of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, was the intellectual author of the attack, but he had not been prosecuted until now, Articulo 19 said.

Mexico is one of the most dangerous places in the world for members of the media.

A total of 102 journalists, according to Special Prosecutor’s Office for Crimes against Freedom of Expression, or FEADLE, figures, were murdered in Mexico between 2000 and 2014.

Some 356 attacks on female journalists were registered between 2009 and 2015, Articulo 19 said.

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