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Lanlan and Lin Xiaoyi
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Joseph asks for accountability for the violence. “If there are no repercussions for murdering people, it will continue,” he said.
Worse still, the US electoral system does not provide an effective approach to its domestic chaos, observers found. “The two campaigns are trying so hard to cover up their ineptitude and attack their rivals, while having little time to really push for a solution,” expert Yuan Zheng told the Global Times.
As many as 61 percent of Americans thought the US is on the wrong track, according to a poll released in August by The Economist and data company YouGov.
The sharp social spear in the US cannot be solved in the short term, Matthew said. “At [this] moment, we have no choice but to focus on the election, which is frustrating,” he said.