Biden calls Xi dictator, China says his comments are 'extremely absurd and irresponsible'
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Via: vic-eldred • last year • 115 commentsBy: Madeleine Hubbard (Just The News)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
President Joe Biden referred to Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a dictator, and China's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday called his comments "extremely absurd and irresponsible."
"It is a blatant political provocation. China expresses strong dissatisfaction and opposition," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said about Biden's comments during a daily press briefing in Beijing, according to The Associated Press. "The U.S. remarks are extremely absurd and irresponsible."
Ning's quick response came after Biden said Tuesday evening at a California fundraiser that Xi was upset when the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon in February.
"China is real — has real economic difficulties. And the reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two boxcars full of spy equipment in it is he didn't know it was there. No, I'm serious. That's what's a great embarrassment for dictators, when they didn't know what happened," Biden said, according to the official White House transcript.
The clash over Biden's remarks comes one day after Secretary of State Antony Blinken finished his visit to Beijing, where he met with Xi amid mounting tensions between the two nations.
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I hope Joe gets it
I take it the photo you selected was a 'click-bait' editorial choice.
Looks like it worked as here you are!
Nah, just the desperate headline atop a desperate article ... authored by a desperate Ms. Hubbard.
And yet, still here you are!
Thought I would give the fall down comedy routine a chance ... hoot, hoot!
The truth is never desperate. Joe fucked up yet again.
What Biden Said About President Xi Just a Day After Blinken's China Trip Has Enraged Beijing (townhall.com)
China has been enraged since chants of "ChinA-Virus' wafted across the Pacific.
The obligatory trump reference on an article that has nothing to do with him.
Followed by the obligatory response whenever his name is mentioned ... sorry but no matter how much you try to whitewash him from history it will fail miserably.
You best worry about the little dictator in Canada.
Pierre Poilievre? Poor lad doesn't know whether to be Don or Ron.
AKA: the Earl of Dorincourt
It would be great if you 'got it'.
No fear of that ever happening.
Gets what?
One of the very few cases where Biden was actually correct. Xi is in fact a dictator!
Correct yes, but this was a major unforced error.
the problem with a brain damaged old man who couldn’t run a Dairy Queen being president is the real danger to foreign relations he creates. He goes from kow towing to insulting over the course of a few days, causing instability and confusion for no purpose.
The CCP also said that communications between the US military and China's military are now over.
Bad …. very bad!
Tomorrow they might just tell Joe that one of their Generals went rogue and unleashed a new kind of covid virus on the US border.
Don't piss them off Joe!
Man, who are you rooting for? You build up and defend tyrants at every turn and shit on democratic leaders (who aren't republicans) whenever you can. I have said it before and will again, Vic is an autocrat at heart.
Or order from wish.com
Biden is correct. Xi Jinping is actually a dictator.
Coming from a supporter of the King of insulting nicknames that is funny.
Of course he's a dictator. That's not the point.
The Biden admin spent months begging for the meeting. Over the weekend Biden embarrassed himself and our country by claiming the spy balloons weren't an intentional act by China. Despite China snubbing the Sec of State and refusing to allow direct military to military talks, Biden declared the meeting a victory and claimed our relations were on the right path. See the narrative Biden's handlers had laid out for him to follow?
Then 24 hours later he's calls him a dictator, even though XI considers that an insult, thus setting back whatever progress the Biden admin had made by supplicating itself to China. SO all the months of humiliating our country to achieve some sort of progress with China are out the window with zero to show for it.
He too brain damaged to control his mouth and stick to a plan. That's the problem.
See 7.0 below.
Raise that the many times my friends on left here accused Trump of being undiplomatic.
Bidenettes give Goober another pass …..
And the only alternative the GOP offers up is Trump, a guy who will suck Xis cock for $10.
Our country is fucked. Only thing we did right lately is Ukraine.
'brain damaged old man'
the former 'president' you mean?
untreated syphilis?
So much for calling Biden Xi's puppet. S/
The FBI was supposed to release the report on the spy balloon in April, but China said no. So no report and we've "moved on" as China demanded.
Is that the story you're buying? Okay.
Good point. I'm sure Reuters, that notorious right wing source, is lying to attack Biden.
Link ... thanx.
Actually no, it is the story he is trying to sell.
Here you go.
Read the full article. The State Department is giving marching orders to everyone else. They are holding back on sanctions against Chinese tech companies and government officials.
Let us know if you find an article showing that the FBI has released the report on the Chinese spy balloon- would love to see what is in it.
"The U.S. remarks are extremely absurd and irresponsible."
Pretty much sums up the whole Biden administration.
Upset about the posture the Biden admin has taken against China?
Trying to get me to defend a statement I never made?
Confused might be a better word.
What is the point of talking with China, trying to build a rapport, and then turning around and saying something like this JUST to piss the Chinese off?
It's a true statement Xi is a dictator and I imagine that China is pissed because of the moves taken by the administration that makes China's position in military tactics more difficult.
President for life = king or dictator, dictator is more appropriate to the suits Xi prefers.
Dictator? China has a political party, elections and guaranteed freedoms for all of its citizens.
The people only vote for local elections.
National business is controlled by the only Party, the CCP, which appoints the 2,952
Reps who voted unanimously to appoint the unopposed Xi Jinping
for an unprecedented and unconstitutional 3rd term,
which they "fixed", by deleting the two term limit from the Constitution.
The Chinese are very pragmatic when it comes to words on paper.
Don't like it - delete it.
Like many other "dictators" he is also the Party Chairman and the CIC of the military.
Dissidents like 69 year old retired billionaire Ren Zhigiang who criticized Xi's handling
of Covid are stripped of wealth and power, accused of stealing from the state and
sentenced to lengthy jail terms. RZ was sentenced to 18 years.
And the reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two boxcars full of spy equipment in it is he didn't know it was there. No, I'm serious. That's what's a great embarrassment for dictators, when they didn't know what happened,"
What the, with all the coverage about the travels of that balloon through our airspace and Xi didn't know it was here?
Joe Biden attempts to rewrite history.
No, that would be the gop/gqp
Joe Biden is an idiot.
Calling the guy a dictator proves or accomplishes WHAT besides pissing them off?
Why try to be diplomatic, right?
I think he's hoping Xi is as clueless as he is.
Xi paid good money for that dumb ass
Just how much did Ivanka get?
I can tell that it's getting towards the end of the month.
Where are your friends?
Yet another deflection to something Trump-related to deflect from Joe's "gaffes".
And we keep expecting something better. Maybe he is tired today.
At the library picking up 'The End of Days' by Jenny Erpenbeck for me. Where are yours?
Psst ... this entire seed is a deflection from the travails of he who shall not be mentioned. Ms. Hubbard is famed for 'framing'.
Look, I get that many would prefer to only have "I Hate Trump" articles here but there ARE other events happening.
You call it a deflection because you don't want to talk about the topic HERE.
Nah, I would say it’s more like Bidenettes working overtime to support/enable goobers equally undiplomatic behavior.
Meh ….. SOSDD ….
Brandon will have to stop sending US military hardware, munitions, and financial aid to Ukraine. China loves that he is depleting US military resources fighting his proxy war with Russia.
Brandon sheath is empty. The only thing he has to rattle is the pebble he accidently dropped into it and can't seem to dislodge.
That's the sort of humiliation China gave Biden millions to undertake on their behalf. To get in front of the world and tell an obvious lie on China's behalf.
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And they say Trump is undiplomatic.
Elbowing members of NATO is diplomatic?
Forcing NATO members to pay their agreed upon share is a friendly elbow
Pushing the smallest member, Montenegro, accomplishes that? Bully in the schoolyard stuff.
Nah, I was thinking more like Germany and France. We’ve been carrying their water in NATO for years
It wasn't them he pushed aside.
Bullshit!
He was tough with China. He was a dirty bird with a finger on the nuclear button and Xi knew it!
He was even tougher with No Kwang Chol ...
You want that??
I want every enemy leader to be convinced of that.
And I suppose after one will drink the koolaide as well....
The koolaide stopped Russia from invading the Ukraine and The Crimea. It's amazing what a little respect for US power can do.
Yeah, donald was so respected. Hahaha
Not only do I NOT want a leader with an itchy button finger, but I do NOT want the planet thinking the USA empowers irrational individuals who might put the planet into a nuclear war with the preemptive use of nuclear weapons.
You need to rethink your diplomatic strategy.
He and his daughter had business dealings with China while he was in office.
A dirty bird?
Who talks like that?
lol
Who did you respond to? He would be the one. Funny you didn't realize that.
WTF are you talking about?
I know who the fuck I was responding to - as evidenced by the fact that I responded to [Deleted]
So why are you here? I wasn't talking to you. [Deleted]
You asked the question "Who talks like that" so it seemed you didn't know who talks like that even though you responded to the person who talked like that.
So why are you here? [Deleted]
Nice edit. Good for you.
You obviously don't understand a rhetorical question. Move along now. Go taunt someone who has time for your bullshit.
The truth is the truth - that's frowned upon in 'articles' like this.
You know you can't use common sense like that on some people. It hurts their feelings.
See.
Do you recall the warning that Eisenhower gave during the Korean War?
Eisenhower never suggested it was good to have a leader with an itchy button finger or to have the planet thinking the USA empowers irrational individuals who might plunge the planet into a nuclear war with the preemptive use of nuclear weapons.
So make a specific point.
I think my point has been made. The Russians took Crimea during the Obama years and attacked the Ukraine during the Biden years. Our enemies were tranquil during the Trump years. It's called "Peace through strength" and it worked for other Presidents as well:
"On 21st May Dulles met with Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru in New Delhi. Expecting his words to reach Beijing, he indicated that Washington would probably make a “stronger rather than a lesser military response if talks failed” but at the same time emphasised the American desire to end the fighting through negotiation. Approaches by Ambassador Bohlen to Molotov a day later were similarly conciliatory.
It was not until the eve of the armistice agreement that Eisenhower approved the transfer of nuclear weapons abroad. He received the proposal on 20th June, just as the release of prisoners in Korea had endangered the agreement. The request came less than twenty four hours after the NSC had considered how to respond to a build up of enemy forces and a possible last minute Chinese ground offensive. But although the President called for immediate marine reinforcements to Japan, the JCS no longer sought authority for use of the weapons and no hints were dropped about the move, which was as much the beginning of a longer-term strategy for nuclear deployment as a short-term measure: In the event, an armistice was agreed without recourse to nuclear coercion.
The Korean War ended as it began, with not a single American nuclear weapon deployed within usable distance of the fighting. But while Washington never came close to tactical use of atomic weapons, statesmen of both administrations used them as a negotiating tool."
In Trump's case the appearance of "irrational" was as good as Eisenhower's steady hand.
Btw, Trump is far more rational than the ass we have in the White House now.
You have a point. If our enemies believe our CiC is irrational they will be cautious. It is damagingly negative for the USA to be seen as an irrational, irresponsible super-power, but it does bring that one advantage you cite.
Poorly at best until now. You referenced Eisenhower which is entirely misleading because Eisenhower never suggested it was good to have a leader with an itchy button finger or to have the planet thinking the USA empowers irrational individuals who might plunge the planet into a nuclear war with the preemptive use of nuclear weapons.
Now, do you think we should elect irrational CiCs? Or, softer, do you think the USA should project an image of an irrational, irresponsible super-power that is itching to plunge the planet into nuclear war?
The proper approach is diplomacy backed by a clearly superior military force. I would reference Teddy Roosevelt here: "speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far".
Yeah, it is quite rational to knowingly and willingly refuse to fully cooperate in the return of classified (some TS/SCI) documents, to hide them from authorities, to lie to authorities, and to disclose contents (even in abstract) to unauthorized individuals; especially when the aforementioned are criminal acts.
Letting one's emotions and ego open oneself up for a strong federal criminal indictment is the epitome of rationality.
And it is superbly rational to claim, even now, that the 2020 election was rigged, that Trump actually won, that Biden is illegitimate and that millions of voters were disenfranchised.
And then of course a rational PotUS would allow his supporters to break and enter the Capitol building to disrupt the workings of Congress and not lift a finger to stop them for three hours (although he was perfectly willing to fuel the fire by tweeting that Pence let them down right in the middle of the insurrection).
That just screams rational reasoning and behavior.
Why do you continue to defend this abysmal character?
I think the US leader needs to project strength. That would eliminate Carter, Obama and Scranton Joe.
Projecting strength is good; that is the point I made.
Projecting irrationality is net bad.
An irrational person like Trump should never be allowed political power, much less the presidency.
Projecting something and being something are two different things. He was an excellent President.
Biden has done serious injury to this nation. You seem to regard his tenure as no different from any other recent president.
I have to believe that either:
A) you don't care
or
B) you like those policies.
Trump is irrational. But even if not, projecting irrationality is in itself bad. The USA does not want to be seen as irrational or irresponsible on the world stage.
Do you actually disagree with that??
Reality is far more complex than your simple binary question implies. I have made it quite clear that I do not believe Biden should be PotUS and am against his nomination for 2024. I have also noted policies that I find to be wrong / damaging like his apparent policies on illegal immigration or government spending and policies that I find to be correct such as building USA infrastructure, encouraging renewable energy, encouraging rational steps regarding climate change, and providing leadership in support of Ukraine.
Reality is not black or white ... it is many shades of gray. One can dislike aspects of a PotUS and like others. One can deem a PotUS to be too old, etc. for the office while finding another individual who is demonstrably and wholly unfit to hold a public office to be a profoundly worse candidate.
Political reality is not something that can be boxed into a simplistic little model with comfortable rules that always work.
He is. There can be more than one lunkhead in politics.
No argument there but who gets hammered by the left for it?
Not Biden
Why would you think that a PotUS would get hammered by his own party in today's divisive, uber-partisan environment?
Rs have been making outrageously stupid 'arguments' trying to defend indefensible acts by a former R PotUS. So why would you think Ds would offer normal criticism of their PotUS?
We are NOT living in a period of time where integrity and honesty are valued. What is valued is power and influence and the ends justify the means.
See a lot of never Biden Democrats do you?
Nothing new. The difference is the weaponizing of the Fed. That accelerated after Trump beat the chosen one. I hang much of the divisiveness today around her neck.
Never forget her calls to resist. I haven’t.
You think Hillary (politically dead since 2016) has introduced more contemporary (as in today) divisiveness than Trump who has been politically active at the highest levels since 2016 and is well known for being an abusive, divisive asshole??
I have never liked Hillary, but there is no comparison between her and Trump in terms of divisiveness (and other qualities).
Your “analytical” wordsmithing is amusing. I never claimed one was better or worse than the other. My claim is in black and white above so I won’t waste bandwidth repeating it.
But one would have to be pretty dull to intimate in any way, that Hillary didn’t help create much of todays divisiveness.
And she is still hip deep in it.
Yes, as my comment suggests, Hillary has of course contributed to modern political divisiveness. Just nowhere close to that of Trump.
Using Trumpesque language, Trump is a disaster.
Well, that’s a long way to go for “I have never liked Hillary” that’s for sure but I’ll take your word for it.
And opinions do vary.
Hillary managed to alienate nearly half the country just as well as Trump has but perhaps you didn’t notice since you weren’t one of them.
If Xi is upset over the dictator's comment imagine how he feels about the new agreement between US and PNG that allows us to open both naval and ground force bases there. Further complicating China's push in the Pacific and the extension of the Quad, Japan, and South Korea became more allied and expanded their military arsenal and the little matter of our agreement with the Philippines. Or the stationing of some of our B 52s in northern Australia.
Oh, and the latest from Indonesia, we have landed some of our B 52s there for the first time ever and have been conducting joint air exercises with the Indonesia air force. And late in 2022 Indonesia order 35 F-15 from the US.
Xi has plenty to be upset about and I would guess being called a dictator is pretty far down the list.
Xi's puppet has been a busy boy but this kind of stuff will not wash with Ms. Hubbard and her wheelbarrow of squirrels.
So true, Xi has Goober and his useful idiot Bidenettes right where he wants them.
Dim, dull and completely detached from reality.
He didn’t know it was there? Why wouldn’t he know? Was it supposed to be spying on Canada? Was it not sending back signals?
OK, well, he is a dictator, but is it necessary to point out the obvious? Especially when we’re trying to have a dialogue with his country? I don’t have a problem with calling a spade a spade, but if diplomacy is a priority, you might want to be more thoughtful about when and how you do it.
Joe Biden is intent on proving why his handlers should never let him go off script.
Clearly sloppy statesmanship; an unforced error. Especially given the renewed interest in keeping a good diplomatic relationship with China.