[ti:World Reacts with Surprise to US Presidential Debate]
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[00:00.04]People around the world have been reacting to the debate
[00:04.48]between the two main candidates for president in the United States.
[00:11.08]President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden
[00:16.56]met Tuesday night in Cleveland, Ohio,
[00:20.32]for the first of three planned debates.
[00:25.16]Many people overseas were critical of the language the candidates used
[00:32.48]during the 90-minute-long event.
[00:36.52]The two men insulted each other with name-calling and personal attacks.
[00:45.32]Speaking to Biden, Trump said," I've done more things in 47 months
[00:52.28]as president than you've done in 47 years" as a U.S. senator
[01:00.00]and vice president under former President Barack Obama.
[01:05.72]Biden described Trump as "the worst president America has ever had."
[01:11.84]Several times, the former vice president called him "a clown."
[01:19.84]The Associated Press reports that the candidates' comments and actions
[01:26.56]could have a big effect on America's international image.
[01:32.68]Observers from Asia and Australia to Europe and Africa
[01:38.92]looked for possible effects on financial markets.
[01:45.40]Michael Hewson is chief market expert at investment service CMC Markets UK.
[01:55.32]"If last night's presidential debate was supposed to inform and educate," he wrote,
[02:02.16]"all it did was merely confirm the credibility deficit in U.S. politics."
[02:11.16]Hewson accused the candidates of taking part
[02:16.16]"in what can only be described as a fact-free, name-calling contest."
[02:24.96]A highly divided and possibly legally contested U.S. election is coming,
[02:32.32]warned Stephen Innes of AxiCorp,
[02:37.16]a foreign exchange trading services provider based in Sydney, Australia.
[02:45.16]"With mail-in votes likely to be too high (and possibly questioned),
[02:51.20]there is a chance that we still will not know the result by Inauguration Day," he said.
[03:00.76]By law, the winner of the election is to be sworn in on January 20.
[03:08.48]Innes warned of a possible constitutional crisis
[03:13.00]if the election results are questioned or delayed.
[03:19.44]In Europe and Africa, people awoke Wednesday to news reports on the debate.
[03:27.68]"The comments I've seen from various European press is basically:
[03:33.88]‘I'm happy I'm not an American voter this year.' It's just a mess," said Jussi Hanhimaki.
[03:43.24]He serves as a professor of International History
[03:47.40]at the Graduate Institute in Geneva in Switzerland.
[03:52.40]On Twitter, Kenyan commentator Patrick Gathara noted:
[03:58.52]"This debate would be sheer comedy if it wasn't such a pitiful
[04:03.88]and tragic advertisement for U.S. dysfunction."
[04:10.36]On Facebook, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen
[04:15.88]criticized all the time spent on arguments at the debate Tuesday night.
[04:22.80]"Fortunately, this is not the case in Denmark.
[04:26.80]And I never hope it will be like that," she wrote.
[04:33.52]Other leaders followed the debate,
[04:36.20]but kept their distance from American politics.
[04:41.80]Steffan Seibert is spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
[04:49.24]He said Merkel was "informed about what took place last night."
[04:55.12]But he refused to comment.
[04:58.92]In Russia, a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin
[05:03.80]said he would not comment on the debate
[05:07.52]because it might be thought of as an attempt to interfere.
[05:13.20]"The Russian Federation has never interfered
[05:17.00]in the internal affairs of the United States and never will," he said.
[05:24.76]Walter Veltroni writes opinion pieces for Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper.
[05:34.56]Veltroni, a former mayor of Rome,
[05:38.40]says he has seen every U.S. presidential debate since 1960.
[05:46.80]"I have never witnessed a spectacle similar to the one last night,"
[05:51.88]he wrote on Wednesday.
[05:54.48]He said the debate showed how there are two Americas
[05:59.24]that appear unable to exist together without conflict.
[06:05.56]I'm Mario Ritter, Jr. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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