The president of the United States said on Tuesday that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, belongs to the category of dictators, at a reception in California with Democratic Party donors and in the presence of journalists.
Referring to a recent episode where the US destroyed a Chinese balloon it claimed was spying on US territory, Joe Biden said that “the reason why [o presidente chinês] got so upset” when he got shot “that balloon is full of spy stuff because he didn’t know that [o dispositivo] it was there”.
“It is very embarrassing for dictators when they don’t know what happened,” Biden continued, adding: “When [o balão] was shot was extremely ashamed and even denied it [o aparelho] were there”.
“And by the way, I promise you, don’t worry about China (…). China has real economic problems,” said the 80-year-old Democrat, who is campaigning for re-election.
Still on Xi Jinping, Joe Biden said: “We are at a time when he wants to mend a relationship”.
Recalling that the head of US diplomacy, Antony Blinken, had just returned from China, the US president believed that the Secretary of State had done a “good job” but explained that “it will take time to the very tense relationship between the two great powers.
The rivalry between China and the United States turned into a diplomatic crisis with this February balloon episode.
It is not the first time that Joe Biden has made remarkable statements at fundraising receptions, small-scale events where cameras, microphones and cameras are excluded, but where the journalists present can hear and write out the president’s introductory speech. them.
It was at one such event, for example in October 2022, that Joe Biden spoke about the risk of a nuclear “apocalypse” unleashed by Russia.
Source: DN
