US Presidential Debate: Trump-Biden face-off prompts shock, despair and, in China, glee

The debate between Donald Trump, left, and Joe Biden was an indicator of the "bad shape of the American democracy", one analyst said.

The truth is, the European leaders feel alone because they know that what Trump has dismantled cannot be rebuilt so quickly and so easily,” she said. “As for the others, Putin, Bolsonaro, Erdogan, they must be telling themselves what we already knew: They can do everything, because the US isn’t a leader anymore.”

US Presidential Debate: Trump-Biden face-off prompts shock, despair and, in China, glee