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But the public is tired of Trump’s flirtation “with a dictator who had his uncle executed, killed a South Korean citizen and destroyed an inter-Korean liaison office,” said Cheon Seong-whun, former director of the National Institute of South Korea. Unification, a think tank from Seoul funded by the government. “Trump has shocked South Koreans repeatedly, putting them on constant alert,” he said. Polls show they favor Biden by nearly four to one.
Trump has continued to oppose other parts of the world in the final weeks of the campaign, speculating that Egypt could “wind up blowing up” a controversial $ 4.6 billion hydroelectric dam on the Nile that Ethiopia is building. The comments aggravated one of the most sensitive disputes in Africa and further polarized opinions about the US elections in both countries.
Many Ethiopians back Biden by default, analysts said. But Yasser Rezk, an Egyptian journalist close to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, whom Trump once called “my favorite dictator,” said Egyptians are strongly supporting Trump’s victory. “Unfortunately, we have no vote,” he said.
In the Middle East, where Trump’s foreign policy has had the greatest impact, the greatest impact of a Democratic victory could be leaving the autocratic leaders of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey with few friends in Washington, said Hisham Melhem, a columnist. for the Lebanese newspaper Annahar Al Arabi.
That could push Saudi Arabia, which Biden has called a “pariah state,” to offer to normalize ties with Israel, if only to cross out calls to reassess the Saudi-American relationship, he said.
By contrast, a Trump victory offers no guarantees to Israel. A President Trump in his second term, freed from his need to please pro-Israel evangelical voters, might rush into an overly lenient new deal with Iran, many Israelis worry.
