Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – United States (US) Presidential Election ongoing between incumbent Donald Trump of the Republican Party and Joe Biden of the Democratic Party.
A number of surveys have shown Biden to be superior at popular vote. But Trump can have a chance of winning, if he gets a majority in Electoral College.
Even so, quoted from South China Morning Post (SCMP)Columnist Peter Kammerer thinks the winner of the US election is actually not the two candidates. It’s Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Why is that?
Xi and Putin wield power by convincing their citizens that their system of government is superior to the US-glorified Western democracy.
Trump has been a ‘blessing’ moreover, he wrote, with his behavior in office showing little concern for his country’s constitution and spreading resentment.
“He called China and Russia America’s biggest rivals, imposed sanctions and used threatening rhetoric,” he said in the Hong Kong media, quoted Wednesday (4/11/2020).
“The mismanagement … of the Covid-19 outbreak where wearing masks and social distancing has come under attack, the collapse of the American economy and the extraordinary unemployment has made it easier for the leaders of China and Russia to argue that democracy is corrupt and corrupt.”
Trump has often shown his admiration for Xi Jinping and Putin, who rule with an iron fist. This is not possible in the US.
Meanwhile, Biden, according to Kammerer, did not impress during the campaign. Even when he was vice president under Barack Obama.
“Unlike Trump, he is a politician with nearly five decades of experience who understands how systems work, where there are limits and how important cooperation and compromise is,” he said.
“While not as bad as Trump, Biden also has a record of racism and misogyny and Biden is a very cautious person when it comes to conflict. He supported the war in Iraq which cost hundreds of thousands of civilian lives, caused a refugee crisis and sparked the Islamic State terrorist group.”
The same thing was also written by other media The Diplomat. This media contains the US election winner is not important because the Chinese Communist Party sees itself as the ultimate winner.
“Outside observers are showing China’s battered image abroad, especially in Europe, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and aggressive diplomacy … But Chinese leaders continue to see the post-Covid world as their own,” wrote the editor of The Diplomat, Shannon Tiezzi.
This was at least reflected in the party’s plenary session last week. Where China insists there will be a ‘deep adjustment to the international balance of power’.
“The phrase is party jargon for the supposed rise of Chinese power and the decline of the United States,” he wrote in the media.
Quoting foreign policy observers, he wrote that in fact China has seen a weakening in the US since the global financial crisis in 2008. This has made China intensively spread its influence outside Asia and oppose the basics of the US global order.
“Chinese scholars believe that Trump has accelerated the US decline, but it will continue regardless of who takes office,” he wrote in a press release by Rush Doshi, a director of the Brookings China China Strategy Initiative and Brookings Foreign Policy.
“When Xi declared that China was in the period of best development since modern times in 2018, he was serious. (This) regardless of the 2020 election results.”
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