US polls: China congratulates Biden, Harris
China on Friday shed its hesitation and congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden and his deputy Kamala Harris for their victory in the 2020 US presidential election.
“We have been following reactions on the US elections from both within the US and the international community,” foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters when pointed out that more world leaders as well as UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres have congratulated Biden.
“We respect the American people’s choice and we extend congratulations to Biden and Harris and we understand that the result of the US presidential elections will be determined following the US laws and procedures.”
Late on Thursday, Biden narrowly won Arizona, capturing the state’s 11 electoral votes and consolidating his lead over his Republican rival and incumbent US President Donald Trump.
For just the second time in more than seven decades, a Democrat will carry Arizona in a presidential election, a monumental shift for a state that was once a Republican stronghold, CNN reported.
But the official transition to his administration remains stalled as Trump refuses to accept defeat. Top US poll and security officials on Thursday said the November 3 election was “the most secure in American history,” refuting Trump’s allegations of fraud and irregu
We respect the American people’s choice WANG WENBIN, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman
larities that he has failed to prove.
The Democrat was getting growing recognition from Republicans who are demanding equal access for him to classified briefings as the president, which has been blocked by Trump along with other practices routinely associated with transition from one administration to another.
“The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history,” said a joint statement by a top official of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with other officials. “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.”