Biden says he still believes Xi Jinping is a dictator - eviltoast

US President Joe Biden said Wednesday he still believes Chinese President Xi Jinping is a dictator, even as the two leaders made progress in their relationship during a meeting outside San Francisco.

“Well, look, he’s a dictator in the sense that he is a guy who runs a country that is a communist country that’s based on a form of government totally different than ours,” Biden told CNN’s MJ Lee. “Anyway, we made progress.”

When asked about Biden’s latest comment at a Chinese Foreign Ministry briefing on Thursday, a spokesperson called it “extremely erroneous” and an “irresponsible political maneuver, which China firmly opposes.”

  • gregorum@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I’d argue that we’re way more democratic than they are communist. But that would be a very long and tedious argument.

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      1 year ago

      Fair and based.

      We are still actually an Oligarchy though lol just, like you said, closer to what we claim we are then China is