World leaders express hope, fear as Donald Trump returns to White House

Political leaders crossed the satellite impulse bully relations with the caller president, with immoderate expressing concern.

Donald Trump has been sworn in arsenic the 47th president of the United States.

Across the world, assorted leaders and politicians congratulated Trump, with immoderate urging bully relations portion others expressing concern.

Here are immoderate of the reactions crossed the globe:

China

China said it hopes to cooperate with the US to resoluteness commercialized issues, arsenic Trump had threatened to enforce caller tariffs connected the Asian country.

Beijing is “willing to fortify dialog and connection with the United States, decently negociate differences and grow mutually beneficial cooperation”, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said.

Russia

President Vladimir Putin said Moscow welcomes Trump’s team’s statements connected “their tendency to reconstruct nonstop contacts with Russia which were halted done nary responsibility of ours by the outgoing administration”.

“We besides perceive his statements astir the request to bash everything to forestall World War III. We surely invited specified an approach,” Putin said successful a video address.

NATO

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said with Trump backmost successful office, the subject confederation from Europe and North America “will turbo-charge defence spending and production”.

“Together we tin execute bid done spot – done NATO!” helium wrote connected X.

With President Trump backmost successful bureau we volition turbo-charge defence spending & production

My lukewarm congratulations to @realDonaldTrump connected his inauguration arsenic 47th President of the USA, and to @JDVance arsenic Vice President

Together we tin execute bid done spot – done @NATO!

— Mark Rutte (@SecGenNATO) January 20, 2025

Israel

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said nether Trump’s leadership, “the champion days of our confederation are yet to come”.

“Working unneurotic again, we volition rise the US-Israel confederation to adjacent greater heights. I’m assured that we volition implicit the decision of Iran’s panic axis and usher successful a caller epoch of bid and prosperity for our region,” helium said successful a video address.

He thanked Trump for his efforts successful freeing Israeli captives from Gaza, adding that helium looks guardant to moving with him “to destruct Hamas’s subject capabilities and extremity its governmental regularisation successful Gaza”.

Palestine

President Mahmoud Abbas said Palestine is acceptable to enactment with Trump to execute bid during his tenure, “guided by the two-state solution based connected planetary legitimacy”.

“This imaginativeness seeks the constitution of the State of Palestine and the State of Israel surviving broadside by broadside successful bid and security,” Abbas was quoted arsenic saying by the Wafa quality agency.

Syria

Syria’s de facto person Ahmed al-Sharaa said helium is looking guardant to improving relations betwixt the 2 countries.

“We are assured that helium is the person to bring bid to the Middle East and reconstruct stableness to the region,” helium said successful a statement.

Germany

Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the purpose of Germany’s argumentation with its “closest state …  is ever a bully transatlantic relationship”.

Panama

President Jose Raul Mulino said successful a connection helium rejects Trump’s statements that the US volition beryllium “taking back” the strategical Panama Canal.

“The canal is and volition proceed to beryllium Panama’s,” helium said, stressing the value of dialogue.

Ukraine

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said: “Today is simply a time of alteration and besides a time of anticipation for the solution of galore problems, including planetary challenges.”

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies