Obama won the election, of course. According to a poll on sina.com, 80% of the Cyber Citizen in China think they will vote for that black guy if they have the right to vote. Among all these Respondents, few of them really care about the US election, and they don't know the difference between both candidates' policy. They think Obama is suitable maybe just because he looks handsom and young, and most importantly, he seems to be able to bring some changes, some people just want some change, whatever what it means, especially when the change has nothing to do with him.
As a Chinese, the most important reason I care about the United States is that I think maybe someday we can learn sth from them, and I suppose that anyone who declare himself to have a global view can't avoid America. I think that if an ET come to the earth for the first time, he want to know sth about the human being, like we want to know sth about the animous, the ET don't know anything about humans in advanced, they don't know there are sths called country, sciences, techology, culture, ets. , all they can do is by their own observation, the same as we use some instruments the know where some kind of animals live and how many of them gather together. Then where do they want to go first? They may come to Asia, of course, such as Bangladesh, Japan, India, Pilipinas, Vietnam, or maybe British and Frence, they will soon know that the whole human don't be taken as together, there are borders among countries, then, the Aliens may wonder, which country has the most population in the earth, and why? how can't we go there and find out? Then they will come to China, and as time goes through, they will know that the most powerful country is on the reverse side of the ball, thus they know US exsit.