In class of “dictators” ranked on Tuesday (20/6) its Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping the american president Joe Biden during a dinner he hosted in California for Democratic donors in the presence of reporters.
Focusing on the episode that occurred earlier this year with the chinese hot air balloon which Washington called a spy and sent a fighter jet to shoot it down at high altitude, Mr. Biden said that “the reason (the Chinese president) was so upset when I shot down the balloon full of spy material was that he didn’t know (that the balloon) was there.”
“This puts the dictators in a very difficult position, when they don’t know what happened”he continued, as reported by the Athens News Agency, adding: “When (the balloon) was shot down, he was in a very difficult position, he even denied that he was there.”
“Besides, I promise you, don’t worry so much about her China (…) China has real economic difficulties,” said the 80-year-old Democrat, who is campaigning ahead of the 2024 presidential election, in which he will seek re-election.
“We’re in a situation where he wants to reestablish a relationship.”
Always referring to Xi Jinping, Mr Biden also said “we are in a situation where he wants to re-establish a relationship”.
A day after his administration’s secretary of state returned from Beijing, the US president reiterated that the Anthony Blinken he did a “good job”, but estimated that “it will take time” to de-escalate the tensions between the world’s two largest economies.
The day before, he declared that the relationship was on the “right path”.
The rivalry between the US and China turned into an open diplomatic crisis over the hot air balloon incident in February.
It’s not the first time Mr Biden has made deafening remarks at a fund-raising event, where guests are usually thin and cameras, microphones and cameras are not allowed – although journalists in attendance can hear the opening remarks. statements of the president and to rebroadcast them.
In an event of this very nature, in October 2022, the American president referred to the possibility that Russia would cause a nuclear “apocalypse”, according to him.
Source: News Beast
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