Four years of trade war with the United States and ugly verbal aggression over the pandemic of the new coronavirus – “the Chinese virus”, Donald Trump repeated – did not lead Beijing to want to quickly return to the page of the Republican President and recognize the victory of the Democratic opponent. “We heard that [Joe] Biden announced his victory. In our understanding, the outcome of the presidential elections will be determined according to American law and established procedures, ”said Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the election campaign, Joe Biden was an advocate of a harsh US attitude towards China, saying he will force Beijing “to operate according to international rules”.
In 2016, President Vladimir Putin took only hours to greet the victorious Donald Trump. Now, he has remained silent. According to Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Kremlin, Moscow will wait for the official results to be released before making a comment. If Russia had been, until Trump, the ‘usual enemy’ of the USA, the 45th President never tried to hide his praise for Putin, adding to this stance the suspicions that he would have benefited from Russian interference in the 2016 elections. During the campaign , commenting on this possibility, Joe Biden considered any foreign interference “an adversarial act”. In an interview with the “60 Minutes” program, he chose Russia as “the main threat” to US national security.
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