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"We believe it is possible to pop those bubbles," it said. "It's in the common interests of people from both countries and of international community that China-U.S. relations become eased and controllable."

Chinese state media struck an optimistic tone in Monday in editorials reacting to Democrat Joe Biden's win of the U.S. presidential elections, saying relations could be restored to a state of greater predictability and could start with trade. While acknowledging the United States was unlikely ease pressure on China on issues such as Xinjiang and Hong Kong, state-backed newspaper Global Times said Beijing should work to communicate with the Biden team as thoroughly as it can.

The Trump campaign's strategy to file a barrage of lawsuits challenging President-elect Joe Biden's win is more about providing President Donald Trump with an off-ramp for a loss he can't quite grasp and less about changing the election's outcome, according to senior officials, campaign aides and allies who spoke to The Associated Press. Trump has promised legal action in the coming days as he refused to concede his loss to Biden, making an aggressive pitch for donors to help finance any court fight. Trump and his campaign have levelled accusations of large-scale voter fraud in Pennsylvania and other states that broke for Biden, so far without proof.

There were two notable holdouts among the world leaders who rushed to congratulate Joe Biden on his victory in the U.S. elections: the leaders of Latin America's two largest countries, both of whom have been seen as friendly to President Donald Trump. President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, sometimes dubbed ``the Trump of the Tropics'' for his populist, off-the-cuff style, has kept silent on Trump's loss. And Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador refused to congratulate Biden at this point, saying he would wait until the legal challenges over the vote were resolved.

"The work starts right away," Biden Deputy Campaign Manager Kate Bedingfield said on Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Joe Biden and his advisers on Sunday were working on plans to tackle the crises facing a divided America, first and foremost the raging coronavirus pandemic, a day after the Democrat won enough states to clinch the US presidency. Republican Donald Trump, the first US president to lose a re-election bid in 28 years, gave no sign of conceding, instead pressing ahead with legal fights challenging the outcome.

A lotus has bloomed in the mud pond that is American politics, long dominated by men - mostly white men. Kamala Harris’ election as the first female Vice-President of the United States – sub-ethnicities and race aside - was celebrated wildly across a country that now has more women voters than men, with the winner herself recognizing the turning point in redressing gender imbalance in history.

On Saturday night, when Kamala Harris stepped onto the stage and into history at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, as vice president-elect of the United States, she did so in full recognition of the weight of the moment, and in full acknowledgment of all who came before. She is so many firsts: first woman to be vice president, first woman of color to be vice president, first woman of Southeast Asian descent, first daughter of immigrants. She is the representation of so many promises finally fulfilled, so many hopes and dreams.

News about the victory of Joe Biden in the recent US presidential elections, saw China's tightly controlled social media platforms buzzing. As of Sunday afternoon, posts about Biden on the Twitter-equivalent micro-blogging site Weibo had attracted over 730 million views, while Tencent's WeChat Moments, which resembles Facebook's Timeline, was equally busy, reported Tracy Qu for the South China Morning Post.

The Washington Nationals are making their pitch to President-elect Joe Biden. The Nats have invited Biden to toss out the ceremonial first ball next season on opening day. Washington is scheduled to host the New York Mets at Nationals Park on April 1. "We're excited to continue the long-standing tradition of sitting Presidents throwing out the first pitch at the home of the national pastime in our nation's capital,'' the team posted on Twitter this weekend.

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to restore a time-honored tradition of having a presidential pet at the White House. Starting in January, the Biden family’s two German shepherds, Champ and Major, will roam the executive residence. President Donald Trump was the first president in more than a century not to have a pet of any kind, said Andrew Hager, the historian-in-residence at the Presidential Pet Museum.

With US President Donald Trump showing no signs that he will leave office gracefully after his defeat to President-elect Joe Biden in the US Presidential elections, experts and former officials say they fear a growing risk that he could make disruptive moves to double down on priorities and tie his successor's hands in his final months in the White House. Experts added that China could be a particular target, given Trump's repeated efforts to blame Beijing for the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic conditions of the United States, says Mark Magnier in the South China Morning Post.

“I may have relatives in India,” US President-elect Joseph Biden had declared on his maiden visit to Mumbai in 2013, when VP-elect Kamala Harris’s Tamil Nadu connection wasn’t headline news yet. Biden, then serving as VP, was referring to a Mumbai resident who, he said, shared his surname and had written to him back in 1972, claiming they were both descendants of someone who worked for the erstwhile East India Company. Biden, who was 29 at the time and had just been elected to the US Senate, said he wanted to follow up on the claim but couldn’t.

The Taliban said Sunday they expect the next US president, Joe Biden to abide by the deal signed with his predecessor Donald Trump's administration that paved the way for withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan. In February, Trump's administration signed a deal with the Taliban to fully disengage from Afghanistan in exchange for several security guarantees and a commitment from the insurgents to stop trans-national jihadist groups such as Al-Qaeda and Islamic State from operating in the country. However, Biden's victory in the US election has raised hopes among ordinary citizens that he might slow what some see as a too-hasty withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.

President-elect Joe Biden signaled on Sunday he plans to move quickly to build out his government, focusing first on the raging pandemic that will likely dominate the early days of his administration. Biden named a former surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, and a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, David Kessler, as co-chairs of a coronavirus working group set to get started, with other members expected to be announced Monday.