WOODSIDE, California — President Joe Biden defended describing Chinese President Xi Jinping as a dictator earlier this year despite minutes before calling his four-hour meeting with his counterpart among the most constructive that they have had.
“Well, look, he is,” Biden told reporters Wednesday during his post-Xi summit press conference. “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. Anyway, we made progress.”
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Biden had earlier used the word “progress” during his opening remarks, saying the two leaders had “made some important progress” on issues such as fentanyl and military-to-military communication.
Biden said “being blunt with one another” is “critical” for diplomacy, adding Xi has “been straight”…
