{"id":1954526,"date":"2023-06-22T17:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T21:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-stands-by-his-comments-on-xi-being-dictator-sees-no-change-in-relations-with-beijing\/"},"modified":"2023-06-22T17:31:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T21:31:02","slug":"biden-stands-by-his-comments-on-xi-being-dictator-sees-no-change-in-relations-with-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-stands-by-his-comments-on-xi-being-dictator-sees-no-change-in-relations-with-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden maintains stance on Xi as &#8216;dictator,&#8217; no shift in Beijing ties."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-stands-by-his-comments-on-xi-being-dictator-sees-no-change-in-relations-with-beijing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1954526&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>President Biden Stands by &#8220;Dictator&#8221; Remark on Xi Jinping<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden stated on Thursday that his comments about Chinese leader Xi Jinping being a \u201cdictator\u201d will have no real impact on the U.S.\u2013China relationship.<\/p>\n<p>During a joint press conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Biden said that he stood by his remarks on Xi.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by a reporter if his words would undermine or complicate his administration\u2019s efforts to maintain a relationship with China, he said, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that choosing or avoiding telling the truth about the U.S.\u2013China relationship is \u201cjust not something I\u2019m going to change very much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president smiled as he explained, \u201cWe had an incident that caused some confusion, you might say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Secretary Blinken had a great trip to China. I expect to be meeting with President Xi sometime in the future, in the near term, and I don\u2019t think it\u2019s had any real consequence,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Biden made comments about Xi during a fundraiser event in California on Tuesday. He unexpectedly referred to the Chinese leader as a \u201cdictator\u201d while recalling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-may-visit-china-soon-as-biden-admin-seeks-talks-with-beijing\/\" title=\"Blinken may travel to China soon as Biden seeks talks with Beijing.\">recent spy balloon incident<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said the Chinese spy balloon, which was shot down in February by the U.S. military after being blown off course over the United States, had caused \u201cgreat embarrassment\u201d for Xi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment in it was he didn\u2019t know it was there,\u201d Biden said at the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a great embarrassment for dictators. When they didn\u2019t know what happened. That wasn\u2019t supposed to be going where it was. It was blown off course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s comments came a day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded his meetings in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken described his China trip, which included a meeting with Xi, as \u201crobust,\u201d adding that both parties agreed on the importance of stabilizing the difficult relations between the two powers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came to Beijing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-stands-by-his-comments-on-xi-being-dictator-sees-no-change-in-relations-with-beijing\/\" title=\"Biden maintains stance on Xi as 'dictator,' no shift in Beijing ties.\">strengthen high-level challenges<\/a> of communication, to make clear our positions and intentions in areas of disagreement, and to explore areas where we might work together when our interests align on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blinken-going-to-china-this-week-after-postponing-previous-trip-over-spy-balloon\/\" title=\"Blinken to visit China this week after delaying trip due to spy balloon.\">shared transnational challenges<\/a>. And we did all of that,\u201d Blinken said at a press conference following his meeting with Xi.<\/p>\n<p>Xi also expressed satisfaction with the progress made over the two days of talks between top U.S. and Chinese officials. Blinken, however, noted that the Chinese communist regime refused Ameri<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden assured that his labeling of Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a &#8220;dictator&#8221; would not significantly affect the U.S.\u2013China relationship. Speaking alongside Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Biden reiterated his stance on Xi during a joint press conference. When questioned by a reporter, he stood by his previous comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":1954527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1954526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1954527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}