Biden Again Calls Xi a Dictator, Showing Limits of Cooperation
- US leader makes remark as press conference was winding down
- China’s Foreign Ministry later called it ‘extremely incorrect’
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President Joe Biden said he still believed his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping was a dictator, casting a shadow over what both sides had characterized as their most productive meeting to date.
At the end of his press conference Wednesday, Biden responded to a question from a US journalist about whether he stood by a comment he made in June calling Xi a dictator. The remark was denounced at the time by the Chinese Foreign Ministry, which called it “absurd” and a “provocation.”