I noticed it at work, and on the trains. Whenever the US elections came up on the news, everybody would stop doing what they were doing, and pay attention. A few weeks ago, there was a boat crash where a number of people perished, there was a scheduled mourning for midday the next day... fewer people paid attention to that than they did the analysis of the US Presidential first debate.

Also, these things have started springing up all over the place. In the UK, I never saw saw one of these for our own elections, let alone the elections of another country... let alone the elections of another country who isn't exactly on the best of terms with my own.

Also, that's in the HK subway system... see how clean it is? It astounded me, too.

East Asia does great work with public transportation, i've found.

isn't chewing gum banned in china?

you should see nyc subway lol

Just like when I went to San Fransico, thats not a real subway. A real subway is like the ones in NYC with horrid seats that hurts your back, the smell is a mix of piss and vomit, homeless taking a shit your next to your seat now thats a real subway.

You're thinking of Singapore, where they have super-strict laws against all sorts of public conduct stuff because the Chinese tend to be rather crude in their public conduct (Spitting anywhere and everywhere is a big problem).

While gum isn't against the law, you can't buy it anywhere. HK is a very clean city. Any act of littering (including spitting) can result in a fine into the tens of thousands of HK dollars

You now whats amazing in HK... that their transport system actually stops at the right place and you never have to guess where the doors will be.. I love it.. And Mongkok station on a Saturday is a real insane experience..

People lining up in order to get into the train in Japan blew my god damned mind. 

Definitely Hong Kong.
A lot of US residents live there.
Actually, my friend's parents moved there when Bush got elected for a second term. :D