Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr said that with Trump’s election, “the American people triumphed, and I congratulate them for their victory in an exercise which showed the world the strength of American values.”There has been no official statement from North Korea, but analysts believe Kim Jong Un is invested in the US electoral outcome, because it could reopen the possibility of talks.
South African President Cyril Rhamaphosa said: “I look forward to continuing the close and mutually beneficial partnership between our two nations.”During his first term, Trump did not visit Africa, drawing criticism for his limited engagement with the continent.
•Russia upbeat, floats idea of ‘reset’ with US
New opportunities to reset relations between Moscow and Washington have opened up, the influential head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund said yesterday after Donald Trump declared victory in the United States presidential election.Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 triggered the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis when the Soviet Union and the U.S. came close to nuclear war.Both Russian and U.S. diplomats say relations between the world’s two largest nuclear powers have only been worse during the depths of the Cold War.
Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a senior figure in Russia’s political elite, said that Trump’s team had won the presidency and the Senate “despite a large-scale disinformation campaign directed against them”.“Their convincing victory shows that ordinary Americans are tired of the unprecedented lies, incompetence, and malice of the Biden administration,” said Dmitriev, a former Goldman Sachs banker who has previously had contacts with the Trump team.“This opens up new opportunities for resetting relations between Russia and the United States,” added
Dmitriev, who has regularly met and offered advice to President Vladimir Putin.In 2009, then U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proposed a “reset” with Moscow, but due to an apparent translation error presented Moscow with a symbolic button labelled “overload” in Russian instead of “reset”.
Despite the “reset”, relations between President Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama soured.
Trump has repeatedly promised to swiftly end the war in Ukraine if elected, though he has not explained exactly how he would do that.Putin has repeatedly said he is ready to talk about a possible end to the war, but that Russia’s territorial gains and claims must be accepted, something that is anathema to the Ukrainian leadership which has said it would amount to capitulation on their side. Putin has also spoken of the need for Moscow to be given security guarantees.
Russian forces are advancing at the fastest pace in at least a year in Ukraine and control about one fifth of the country.
