SAN FRANCISCO: US President Joe Biden equated his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping with 'dictators' on Tuesday (Jun 20) as he addressed a Democratic Party donors reception in the presence of journalists. Speaking at a campaign fundraiser in northern California, Biden said Xi had been angered over an incident
SAN FRANCISCO: US President Joe Biden equated his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping with"dictators" on Tuesday as he addressed a Democratic Party donors reception in the presence of journalists.
Chinese balloon - which Washington says was used for spying - flew over the United States before being shot down by American military jets"The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment is he didn't know it was there," Biden said."That wasn't supposed to be going where it was ... and he didn't know about it," Biden said of Xi.
Biden, who at 80 is running for re-election, on Tuesday waived off concerns about the Asian giant, telling donors that"China has real economic difficulties".US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited just days earlierStill on the subject of China and Xi, Biden said"we're in a situation now where he wants to have a relationship again".
"What he was really upset about was that I insisted that we unite the ... so-called Quad," Biden said.
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