Joe Biden said on Wednesday that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, was encountering “enormous problems”, especially financial ones. “Find me a single world leader willing to trade places with Xi Jinping… I can’t find one,” Trump said in an interview with PBS.
“This man has huge problems,” in particular “an economy that doesn’t work very well,” he judged, noting however that the Chinese leader “also had a lot of potential.”
Noting that Chinese support for Russia had been relatively quiet, Joe Biden noted that contrary to what “everyone assumed” at the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Beijing was not “fully” committed to Moscow.
Warning about Russia
A reservation, according to him, linked to Xi Jinping’s desire not to suffer the same fate as Russia, which in particular has been subjected to harsh economic sanctions imposed by the West.
“I called him this summer to say, ‘Not a threat, just an observation: Look what happened to Russia,’” Joe Biden said Wednesday.
The White House occupant met Xi Jinping personally for the first time in his tenure as president in November, at the G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. They had already spoken five times by phone or video conference.
The head of US diplomacy, Antony Blinken, canceled a planned visit to Beijing last week, after the entry into US airspace of a Chinese balloon, since shot down by the US military.
Source: BFM TV
