What we know about President-elect Biden's phone calls with world leaders
President-elect Joe Biden began fielding congratulatory phone calls from world leaders this week.
The conversations, traditional courtesies after U.S. elections, have been complicated by an overarching factor: President Trump’s refusal to concede.
In a break from tradition, the State Department has not provided a secure government line or language interpretation for the Biden transition team — which may complicate some countries’ efforts to reach the president-elect.
Contact between presidents-elect and foreign leaders during the transition period between administrations is often the subject of scrutiny, as in the period after the 2016 presidential election. The first calls usually go to the closest U.S. allies, but Trump spoke to about a dozen world leaders the day after he won the vote, on Nov. 8, 2016, with autocratic leaders in Egypt and Turkey among the first to make contact.
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