“The debate was really no debate at all, but two people pursuing their strategies.”Many, if not most, European analysts blamed Trump for the mess. “The debate was a joke, a low point, a shame for the country,” Markus Feldenkirchen of the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel posted on Twitter. The debate will not change foreign opinions of Trump or Biden, he said, but underneath the spectacle is something more troubling. In Singapore, which prides itself on technocratic governance and a careful form of democracy, Bilahari Kausikan, a former ambassador, dismissed the presidential debate as political theatre. The Japanese are sophisticated viewers of American politics, and Trump is a known quantity, but the tone of this debate still case as something of a shock.

Source: bd News24 October 01, 2020 04:41 UTC