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TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga congratulated Democrat Joe Biden on Sunday on being elected the next US president and expressed his desire to improve bilateral relations.
“I look forward to working with you to further strengthen the Japan-United States Alliance and ensure peace, freedom and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond,” he said in a Twitter post.
Some of America’s closest and greatest allies were quick to congratulate Biden on Saturday, acknowledging his victory in the presidential election even though Donald Trump, with whom several have had difficult relationships, had yet to relent.
Germany, Canada and France, which have had strained ties to the Trump administration despite being its G7 and NATO partners, were among the first to acknowledge Biden’s victory, shortly after major American television networks declared it. .
“I look forward to future cooperation with President Biden,” German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a statement on Twitter. “Our transatlantic friendship is irreplaceable if we are to overcome the great challenges of our time.”
Merkel’s Finance Minister Olaf Scholz went further and suggested that a Biden administration would mark a reestablishment of transatlantic ties. “Now there is the possibility of an exciting new chapter in transatlantic relations,” he tweeted.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he hoped to address “the world’s greatest challenges” with the new administration, including climate change, an issue many nations have sparred with Trump.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has had a much more fluid relationship with Trump, also took up the issue of climate change by congratulating Biden.
– with Reuters
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