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The message is clear. Anyone who doesn’t want to shake hands with new US President Joe Biden (77) and his Vice President Kamala Harris (56) shows up three days after the election results. There are no congratulations from the superpowers China and Russia or from Brazil and Mexico. And Turkey and North Korea are also ignoring the new team atop the United States. Even more embarrassing: Slovenian President Janez Jansa (62) congratulated Donald Trump on election night, the loser of the election, on the new presidency.
China and Russia are still waiting for the courts
China reacts coldly. It was noted that Joe Biden declared himself the winner of the election, Wang Wenbin said at a press conference in Beijing. For the State Department, however, this is not decisive, as the outcome will be determined by US laws and procedures, the spokesperson continued. President Xi Jinping’s reluctance (67) corresponds to international practice.
Vladimir Putin (68) is also waiting. Russia’s president was less interested in the US election campaign than four years ago, and this year there were no known cyber attacks against democratic presidential candidates. Experts believe Putin expected more from Donald Trump, for example easing sanctions. Still: Putin still sees Trump as the lesser of two evils.
Joe Biden criticized Turkish Kurdish politics
Recep Tayyip Erdogan (66) also sees no reason to cheer. In December, Joe Biden described the Turkish president as an autocrat in an interview. As vice president of Barack Obama (59), Biden criticized the repression of the Kurds and declared that he wanted to strengthen the opposition. However: Donald Trump also had an ambivalent relationship with Erdogan.
After all, the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro (65), had already bought a T-shirt with the words “Trump 2020”. You can no longer carry that. Because the race was now made by a friend from the weather and an opponent of Bolsonaro: Joe Biden. With a change of power in the White House, Bolsonaro would lose one of the main pillars of his foreign policy, Rubens Ricupero, former Brazilian embassy in the United States, tells El País. Needless to say, Bolsonaro has so far ignored Biden’s electoral victory.
Mexican Andrés Manuel López Obrador (66) also refuses to congratulate Biden and Harris. All votes should be counted first, and the judges decided on their legitimacy, the populist said. And perhaps one or the other hopes that Trump is right about his allegations of voter fraud and remains in office.
