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The international press also focused on the feat of Kamala Harris, Biden’s running mate who will become the first woman and first black vice president of the United States.
US President-elect Joe Biden (C) with his wife Jill Biden and family members greet the crowd onstage after delivering their remarks in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 7, 2020. Image : AFP
PARIS – With headlines like “God Bless America,” powerful media around the world welcomed the defeat of Donald Trump, but warned that President-elect Joe Biden faced enormous challenges in healing America.
The international press also focused on the feat of Kamala Harris, Biden’s running mate who will become the first woman and first black vice president of the United States.
“A New Dawn for America,” read the headline of The Independent in Great Britain, showing a photo of Biden standing next to Harris and noting his landmark achievement.
the sunday time It was with a photo of a black woman draped in the American flag and the headline: “Sleepy Joe Wakes America Up”, mocking Trump using the derogatory nickname he had used for Biden.
Sunday people tabloid thrills in capital letters: “GOD BLESS AMERICA.”
Germany’s mass market image The newspaper ran a photo of Trump with the headline: “Exit without dignity.”
“What a liberation, what a relief,” reported Germany’s left Suddeutsche Zeitung bed sheet.
But he noted that Biden “inherits a heavy burden” unlike any his predecessors faced, and cautioned that accepting Trump’s defeat was “unthinkable.”
In Australia, Daily telegraph The tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch’s media empire also focused on Trump’s expected defiance, describing it as a “hot ball of fury.”
“(Trump) will simply not accept the humiliation of seemingly being beaten by an enemy that he perceived as weak and hardly worth showing up to fight,” he said.
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‘MASKED ENEMY ARRIVED’
Unsurprisingly, Iran’s ultra-conservative newspapers celebrated the fall of Trump, a leader who had pursued a policy of “maximum pressure” and punitive sanctions since withdrawing in 2018 from a landmark nuclear deal.
Still, they reserved little warmth for Biden. “The enemy without a mask has left, the masked enemy has arrived,” warned the conservative publication Resalat.
Another issue was the false accusations of electoral fraud with the ultraconservative media Vatan-e Emrooz, apparently before Biden’s victory was announced, titled “The Graveyard of Democracy” and focused on false accusations.
Similarly, the government of Egypt al-Akhbar used a lengthy editorial to focus on the – unfounded – “violations” of the fraudulent vote, saying “it is time for the United States to stop teaching us democracy lessons.”
In Saudi Arabia, the only Gulf country that has yet to comment on the election results, the pro-government online newspaper Okaz questioned an American strategy in the Middle East under Biden after years of strengthened relations between Riyadh and the Trump administration.
Pan arabic kingdom Asharq al-Awsat The newspaper urged Biden to follow in Trump’s footsteps on regional affairs, saying the Middle East went through a “period of economic prosperity and stability in security.”
WARNINGS FOR POPULISM
Brazil’s mainstream media reported Trump’s defeat in the context of its own populist leader, Jair Bolsonaro, who has likewise sought to diminish democratic institutions and reject science-based facts.
“Trump’s defeat punishes attacks against civilization, it is a lesson for Bolsonaro,” he wrote Newspaper, one of the main newspapers in Brazil.
“That the leaders of Brazil seize the spirit of the age, or die, like Trump, who is already too late.”
Center-right of Spain The world The newspaper said Biden’s victory was a goodbye to Trump’s populism and described Harris as a “symbol of renewal.”
Sweden’s largest newspaper, Today news, titled his editorial op-ed: “Bittersweet Victory: Biden Will Fight to Heal America.”
He described Biden’s vow to go back to normal as “mission impossible.”
“The election result shows a deeply divided country, and it will be difficult for Biden to carry out the reform program that he promised to his main voters,” the newspaper wrote.
Conservative from Sweden Swedish newspaper He warned daily of the dangers posed by the many millions of Americans who will continue to believe Trump’s dangerous rhetoric that his election had been stolen.
“The elections are over, but the conflict continues,” read the headline.
On a lighter note, the Ayrshire Daily News, whose patch covers the Trump Turnberry golf course in Scotland, took a more local look at the result.
“South Ayrshire Golf Club Owner Loses 2020 Presidential Election,” read its headline.
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