{"id":1956551,"date":"2023-06-25T13:01:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T17:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-president-speaks-for-all-of-us-blinken-stands-by-bidens-dictator-comments-about-xi-jinping\/"},"modified":"2023-06-25T13:02:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T17:02:14","slug":"the-president-speaks-for-all-of-us-blinken-stands-by-bidens-dictator-comments-about-xi-jinping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-president-speaks-for-all-of-us-blinken-stands-by-bidens-dictator-comments-about-xi-jinping\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken supports Biden&#8217;s &#8216;dictator&#8217; remarks on Xi Jinping: &#8216;President speaks for us all&#8217;"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fthe-president-speaks-for-all-of-us-blinken-stands-by-bidens-dictator-comments-about-xi-jinping%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=1956551&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<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0625\/35c53438-df01-4dba-98d4-2317084d1266\/audio.mp3?length=3104973&#038;duration=259\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Secretary of State Antony Blinken Stands by President Biden&#8217;s Comment on Chinese Leader Xi Jinping<\/h2>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken stood by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jamie-raskin-releases-letter-purportedly-from-capitol-police-officers-calling-for-capitol-riot-commission\/\" title=\"Jamie Raskin Releases Letter Purportedly From Capitol Police Officers Calling For Capitol Riot Commission\">earlier comments<\/a> from President Joe Biden calling Chinese leader Xi Jinping a dictator, saying &#8220;the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/condoleezza-rice-trump-touched-the-nerve-of-americans-feeling-left-out\/\" title=\"Condoleezza Rice: Trump 'Touched the Nerve' of Americans Feeling Left Out\">president speaks<\/a> for all of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Biden earlier referred to Xi as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-calls-xi-a-dictator-after-us-china-talks_5345896.html\">&#8220;dictator&#8221;<\/a> during a fundraiser event in California, just a day after Blinken reported having had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/blinken-had-robust-conversation-with-chinas-xi-wrapping-up-a-rare-trip-to-beijing-amid-criticism_5341732.html\">&#8220;robust conversation&#8221;<\/a> with the Chinese Communist Party head in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The comment drew the ire of Chinese officials, who called it a &#8220;political provocation.&#8221; Foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Biden&#8217;s statement &#8220;seriously violated China&#8217;s political dignity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5348989\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/06\/22\/id5348989-GettyImages-1256040679-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n        Chinese leader Xi Jinping attends a press conference at the China-Central Asia Summit in Xian, in China&#8217;s northern Shaanxi Province on May 19, 2023. (Florence Lo\/AFP via Getty Images)<br \/>\n    <\/figure>\n<p>Blinken said during a June 25 appearance on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; that he stands by the president&#8217;s comment, coming after Biden himself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-stands-by-his-comments-on-xi-being-dictator-sees-no-change-in-relations-with-beijing_5350912.html\">predicted<\/a> that the comment would have no real effect on relations with China.<\/p>\n<p>CNN anchor Dana Bash discussed the comments with Blinken.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You just went to Beijing last week. It was an attempt to smooth frayed relations with China,&#8221; Bash said. &#8220;Two days later, President Biden calls Xi Jinping a &#8216;dictator,&#8217; which angered China so much that they issued an official diplomatic reprimand to the U.S. ambassador. Was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-immediately-forgave-chuck-schumer-for-saying-retarded-but-when-donald-trump-said-it\/\" title=\"The Media Immediately Forgave Chuck Schumer For Saying \u2018Retarded.\u2019 But When Donald Trump Said It\u2026\">president wrong<\/a> to call Xi Jinping a dictator?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very clear that when it comes to China, we are going to do and say things that they don&#8217;t like, they are going to do and say things that we don&#8217;t like,&#8221; Blinken replied. &#8220;If you look at what comes out of the Chinese Foreign Ministry every day about the United States, you&#8217;d hear plenty of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blinken also took the opportunity to defend his trip to China, which drew some criticism from Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The purpose of my trip at the president&#8217;s instruction was to try to bring a little bit more stability to the relationship, to demonstrate that we&#8217;re committed to managing it responsibly, &#8230; and to be able to deal very directly with our differences,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no secret about about those differences. There&#8217;s no secret about concerns we have about democracy about human rights, about some of the actions that China is taking around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite these differences, however, Blinken emphasized the importance of maintaining a line of communication with the Chinese state to &#8220;avoid escalation to a conflict we want to avoid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The nature of the relationship between China is such, Blinken added, that philosophical disagreements are inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the things I told the Chinese is that we&#8217;re going to continue to do things and to say things that you don&#8217;t like, just as you do the same, and we&#8217;ll work through them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bash asked again, &#8220;Do you believe Xi Jinping is a dictator?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Blinken responded, &#8220;The president speaks clearly, he speaks candidly, I&#8217;ve worked for him for more than 20 years, and he speaks for all of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Lawmaker Reactions to Comment<\/h2>\n<p>Lawmakers and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-president-speaks-for-all-of-us-blinken-stands-by-bidens-dictator-comments-about-xi-jinping\/\" title=\"Blinken supports Biden's 'dictator' remarks on Xi Jinping: 'President speaks for us all'\">public officials gave varied reactions<\/a> to the &#8220;dictator&#8221; comment.<\/p>\n<p>House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) declined to comment on Biden&#8217;s characterization of Xi, but told reporters, &#8220;I would characterize what is happening with the Chinese Communist Party and their repression of their citizens as highly problematic, inconsistent with our values as Americans, and that we&#8217;re going to continue to stand on th<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken supports President Biden&#8217;s characterization of Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a dictator, stating that the president&#8217;s words represent the collective opinion. Blinken&#8217;s affirmation comes after a candid discussion with Xi, following Biden&#8217;s use of the term during a fundraising event in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1956552,"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-1956551","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\/1956551","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1956551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1956551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1956551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1956551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}