Yesterday, Josh Keating at Slate had a great post asking, "How would we report on the shutdown if it were happening in another country?" Well, today we have a shutdown, and we have the answer to that question - at least through the lense of foreign newspapers and social media. Russian papers didn't cover the shutdown as thoroughly as other European media outlets, but some Russian readers seemed to take a similar view: Cutting bureaucracy, what's the problem? In China, which today kicked off a week-long celebration of the National Day holiday, mainstream media coverage of the shutdown was muted: neither the China Daily nor the Global Times, the country's two largest English-language dailies, devoted an editorial to the subject. The shutdown still registered as a trending topic on Sina Weibo, China's most important social network, where most of the comments displayed a mixture of shock, derision, and glee, with no small amount wondering how the world's most powerful country got itself into this predicament.
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