Biden stands by comment that Xi is a ‘dictator’ hrs just after their initially meeting in a calendar year

Biden stands by comment that Xi is a ‘dictator’ hrs just after their initially meeting in a calendar year


WOODSIDE, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 15: U.S. President Joe Biden provides remarks at a information meeting at the Filoli Estate on November 15, 2023 in Woodside, California. The information conference follows a conference amongst Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping for the duration of the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ week, their initial due to the fact conference at the Indonesian island vacation resort of Bali in November 2022. (Photograph by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

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U.S. President Joe Biden has all over again referred to as his Chinese counterpart a dictator — a go that could perhaps unravel the progress produced between the world’s two main powers.

Soon after his initially conference with China President Xi Jinping in a year, Biden responded to a issue on whether he stood by his June remark labeling Xi a dictator.

“Perfectly, look, he is,” Biden claimed Wednesday following the two leaders fulfilled on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in San Francisco.

“He is a dictator in the perception that he is a guy who runs a place that is a communist country that is centered on a kind of govt entirely different than ours.”

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