Following his daylong meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping in Woodside, California Nov. 15, President Joe Biden declared at a press conference that he would still characterize the premier as a dictator.
“He is a dictator in the sense that he is a guy who runs a country that is based on a form of government totally different than ours,” said Biden, responding to a reporter’s shout-out as the formal press conference ended.
Biden had first called Xi a dictator last June at a fundraiser.
Xi and Biden held their meeting — the first in six years — on the sidelines of the weeklong Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which began Nov. 11.
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