Incumbent US President Joe Biden and his rival former president Donald Trump have a televised debate on June 27, 2024 local time in a CNN studio in Atlanta, Georgia. Photo: VCG

As US President Joe Biden's performance in the TV debate prompted controversy, US media outlets claimed that challenging Biden could benefit adversaries like China and Russia, allowing them to lash out at the US democratic system, but Chinese analysts slammed the absurd and boring claim which is an attempt to depict China as a hypothetical enemy to defend Biden, and they know it [the defense] won't help much.

Biden and former president Donald Trump held their first presidential debate on June 27, sparking a debate among Democrats over whether Biden should be replaced ahead of November's ballot, as he delivered meandering and inaudible statements and frequently veered off topic, the Guardian reported. 

An article from CNN on Sunday claimed that US allies are concerned that replacing a candidate so close to the election could weaken the entire electoral process, potentially provide opportunities for adversaries like China and Russia to criticize the US democratic system and portray a weak US.  

Such claims are absurd as China has always upheld a position of non-interference in American internal affairs, Lü Xiang, a research fellow of US studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Monday.

The US presidential election is a matter of the US' own internal affairs, and China never had any interest and will not interfere in any way in the election, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said in April, responding to a claim that US has seen evidence of Chinese attempts to "influence and arguably interfere" with the US general election, adding that China staunchly rejects anyone making an issue of China and damaging China's interests for election purposes.

However, the article's attempt to use China and Russia as justifications for Biden's current situation fails to mask the underlying causes of American chaotic politics, and referring to China and Russia actually presents opportunities to rally Biden's supporters, the expert noted.

Regardless of the election outcome, the post-election political landscape is likely to remain instable due to fragmented decision-making process and piecemeal policies, serving as the underlying cause of uncertainty in the US, Lü said.

European politicians across the mainstream political spectrum have expressed their concerns over Biden's performance, with one of them said that Democrats have to rethink their choices and Germany has to prepare at full speed for an uncertain future, the Guardian reported.

The whole world will have to face this kind of instability over coming years, which is the result of the instability in the internal affairs of the US and its spillover, and the risk of uncertainty will increase no matter who is elected, Lü added. The current issues that the US is facing, including the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and Ukraine crisis, are all related to the problems lying in US' domestic politics.