In the suburbs of San Francisco in the United States, a meeting was held between United States President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The US leader warmly greeted his colleague from China, shook his hand, and after about 3 hours at a press conference he again called him a dictator.
He answered in the affirmative to the corresponding question from the journalist. “Look, he is. He’s a dictator because he’s the guy who runs a country with a communist government that’s completely different from ours! – Biden said. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken also felt “uncomfortable” for these words, Sky News noted. The media published a corresponding video – the footage shows that Blinken “looks stunned and shakes his head disapprovingly after Biden’s words.”
Beijing has also already responded to Biden’s words, calling them irresponsible. “This statement is extremely untrue and irresponsible. China resolutely opposes political manipulation,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning Mao Ning, RIA Novosti reports.
At the same time, Russian sinologists accused the US authorities of humiliating the Chinese leader, writes the Argumenty Nedeli publication. Thus, the media notes that Biden not only verbally insulted the head of the PRC, but also received him at the Filoli residence, which was designed in 1917 and “built with money from the largest gold mine in California – the Empire mine,” and this is the very place , where “hundreds and thousands of Chinese worked and died for pennies for the good of America,” the media claims. As the orientalist-sinologist Nikolai Vavilov notes, the Chinese were then massively brought into this place as guest workers, many themselves fled from the collapse of the Qing Empire. Sinologists note that few people paid attention to this, but not the Chinese, for whom little things and rituals are often more important than what is said out loud.
Nevertheless, the meeting of the leaders was of strategic importance, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi later said. According to him, the leaders of the two countries had an in-depth exchange of views face to face, expressed opinions on the most important issues, including the Ukrainian crisis and the conflict in the Middle East , climate, artificial intelligence.
Let us remember that Biden has previously called Xi Jinping a dictator. This happened in June, when the topic of a Chinese balloon shot down over US territory was discussed.
Source: Rosbalt
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