October 23, 2020

The  "less-furious" final presidential debate before the US election played out on Thursday night, in which US President Donald Trump and Democratic opponent Joe Biden faced off in a contest over COVID-19, national security and diplomacy among many other topics, during which China was still the most-mentioned country in their constant whining and blaming.

While both sides seemed to have learnt lessons from the last messy debate, behaving in a much more restrained way under a new policy that required the candidates to be muted while the other was answering, the debate still failed to deliver on any substantial plans to address the country's important problems, with both sides offering greatly different perspectives on foreign policy, the environment, racial injustice and COVID-19 topics. 

Experts told the Global Times on Friday that the two presidential debates — and the way in which they were carried out — reveal the deteriorating political environment in the US, where bipartisan views are deeply divided, adding to the country's failed system exposed when having to deal with multiple crises this election year.

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