Brazil's Bolsonaro recognizes Biden victory

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on the subject of Tuesday congratulated U.S. President-elect Joe Biden for his Nov. 3 election success, finally accepting the increased loss of Donald Trump, a political idol with whom he previously sought to forge closer bilateral ties.

Biden's success and Bolsonaro's reluctance to recognize it possess cast a good dark cloud over U.S.-Brazilian relations, which had warmed to the point of discussing a free trade deal last year. Biden will probably take a tougher line on Brasilia in areas including the environment, human being rights and trade, leaving the far-right Bolsonaro a lot more isolated on the global stage.

"Greetings to the President Joe Biden, with my finest wishes and the wish that the USA will stay 'the territory of the free of charge and the house of the brave,'" Bolsonaro said in a assertion published by Brazil's Foreign Ministry. "I will be prepared to use you and continue steadily to create a Brazil-USA alliance, in security of sovereignty, democracy and freedom around the world, aswell as in trade integration."Bolsonaro, a former army captain, was among the last global leaders to acknowledge Biden's victory, doing so only after it had been confirmed by the U.S. Electoral University on Mon. Echoing Trump, Bolsonaro previously voiced considerations about alleged widespread U.S. fraud in the November vote, without citing facts. Trump has continuing to make unfounded claims about fraud and refused to concede.

Biden's success leaves Bolsonaro with out a essential diplomatic ally and additional undermines his method of the COVID-19 pandemic, whose gravity, like Trump, he offers often sought to play straight down. Fresh US pressure to curb deforestation in the Amazon and spur global actions against climate switch has already brought on friction with Bolsonaro, who bristled at Biden's feedback along those lines during a pre-election presidential debate.

Frostier relations with Washington could ironically force Bolsonaro nearer to China, some professionals say. A longtime China skeptic, Bolsonaro will come to rely extra on the world's No. 2 economy - Brazil's biggest trade spouse - if environmental and individual rights issues crimp the U.S.-Brazil trade agenda.