This Monday, China viewed as “extremely absurd” recent statements by German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in which she described Chinese President Xi Jinping as a dictator.
In an interview with the North American television channel Fox News this weekend, Baerbock wondered what a victory for Russian leader Vladimir Putin in the war in Ukraine would mean for “other dictators such as Chinese President Xi Jinping.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning expressed Beijing’s “deep dissatisfaction” with the words of the head of German diplomacy and assured that her country has already lodged a formal protest with the European nation through diplomatic channels.
Last June, US President Joe Biden also called the Chinese leader a “dictator”, words that the Asian country’s Foreign Ministry described at the time as “extremely irresponsible” and “a political provocation”.
Source: DN
