Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday defended President Biden calling Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator.”
Biden referred to Xi as a dictator just one day after Blinken met with the Chinese leader as part of a trip to Beijing to smooth relations. China was furious over Biden’s remark and lodged a formal complaint with the US ambassador in Beijing.
“When it comes to China, we are going to do and say things that they don’t like,” Blinken said on CNN’s State of the Union when asked if Biden was wrong to call Xi a dictator. Blinken said China would also continue to “do and say things that we don’t like,” pointing to the rhetoric from the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
At daily press briefings, representatives of the Chinese Foreign Ministry often harshly criticize US policy toward China but avoid personal insults directed at President Biden.
When asked if he believes Xi is a dictator, Blinken replied, “The president speaks clearly. He speaks candidly. I have worked for him for more than 20 years, and he speaks for all of us.”
During Blinken’s trip to Beijing, the two sides agreed to maintain dialogue, but no breakthroughs were made as the Biden administration is not changing course on major issues of concern for China, such as increasing US support for Taiwan.
Say anything to frighten the world and keep those weapons sales up.
Blinken looks more and more like that skinny pasty kid in high school that carried the football players jockstrap just to look cool.
Good one! But, have you seen him play the guitar? It’s as creepy as when you dream of when the Grim Reaper comes knocking on your door, uses that sickle of his, while his eyes pierce and devour your soul. …Sorry, you went light and I went dark. (Sarcasm of course. He couldn’t be the Grim Reaper himself–could he?)
And handed out the towels after practice, while getting a few lobbed into his face.
Blinken is just so incompetent and out of his depth. Appalling
He is an idiot. He went through the ringer just to see XI, and Biden totally undercut him with the remark about Xi being a “dictator.” He should have resigned right then and there.
I doubt he went there with any diplomatic solutions.
When asked if he believes Xi is a dictator, Blinken replied, “The president speaks clearly….
Yes. “God save the queen”
Sticks and stones — and words. What a bizzare way to double down on verbal bullying. Xi must be scratching his head. US trying ti hurt him with words — but very short in sticks and stones department.
In Taiwan, pro-unification party will win election if national elections held today. They alreadyy won Taipei, And the string of unfortunate events, from trade to politics, are all turning out short in sticks snd stones department. Words that Biden and Blinken are endorsing are saying loud and clear. We tried to negotiate (translate bully you into cincessions) and it did not work. So now we can bully you publicly. Thee!
Biden is definitely short in stones. That’s for sure.
lol……………………………………………………………….
So, Xi is a dictator but Mohammed bin Salman is our best bud. Got it.
What about Zelensky, the plucky little man saving democracy, who outlawed other parties and who has said there will be no elections in Ukraine until after the war is over? The same man who has Ukrainian intelligence agencies dictating who should be censored in the US in mass media via the FBI, including journalists like Aaron Mate, who twitter refused to ban.
When the duly elected president of Ukraine was ousted, the first thing that the new leadership did was ban the Russian language, then the other stuff followed (control of media, etc). The the territorial dispute began with Kiev shelling the provinces in Donbas.
Let’s amend the Constitution to prohibit anybody older than 60 from becoming President. I saw the results of Trump’s mental test, and Biden might be afraid to take one.
The fate of the “Gang of Five” demonstrates that there is a red line across which the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party cannot go. It is therefore a serious mistake to compare Xi to Stalin.
All of us…!? No Blanky, He only speaks for his jealousy and frustration since China showed you the middle finger last week…!
Easily the most unqualified, incompetent SOS in recent American history.
Well said OB1, well said.
It could be worse. I think he fell on his sword to keep Nuland from ousting him.
China has eliminated excruciating painful poverty and loss of control to colonial barbarians after a free lunch. President Xi has taken a turn at the helm. Chinese have eliminated poverty and shame in one century. Now they begin a second century building a modern socialist democracy.
Americans are so dumbed down few even know that China and Taiwan go through this fairly regularly when dynasties change and those on the out flee to Taiwan.
Chinese usually get things patched up in a generation or two. No reason to borrow and spend over that.
Borrow and spend democrats and republicans figure the Chinese aren’t doing it right this time. They also think Russians and Ukrainians aren’t doing thing right either. Raise the debt ceiling and borrow more money to burn there, too.
Both presidential candidates should probably be in prison. Which will be considered the lesser evil? Maybe the time has come to simply keep clean and stay away from the multi-billion dollar fake election.
We have the most cockeyed government, unable to write a decent budget and they want to tell a well governed nation with more than a billion people how to govern. That alone shows how stupid and arrogant in their stupidity these people like Biden neocon people really are.
Cry for the USA and all the idiots in USA/NATO.
Between this and NATO declarations that Putin is losing his power in Russia (presumably to be replaced by someone more aligned with stronger military responses to NATO), it seems that the US is working hard to make sure that we move more towards military solutions to issues rather than other solutions.
“Joe Biden and Biden administration officials are pathologically obsessed with undermining Israel” Ted Cruz saysif you’re critical of Israel then you’re “obsessed” with Israel- but you’re never “obsessed” if you’re critical of Russia, China or Iran etc. Biden was called “obsessed” after the mildest rebuke and sanction following Israels latest land grab. The Us is not called “obsessed” the 99% of the time is supports Israel (financially, militarily, diplomatically) or when it denies Palestine’s right to exist.
So much for DIPLOM-ASSY…
When we need real government and real leadership we have such childish behavior coming from a senile president and supported by a stupid immature man like Biden. What a shame of a great nation to be governed by such zeros of people like Biden/Nuland/Blinken/Sullivan and a Harris for VP. What a national and global disaster these incompetent people are, and then look at the mess congress is in. No leadership to be seen in both branches of government.
Blinking and Bye-Done… What a team.
I am no fan of Senile Joe.
But actually, he is right.
Xi Jinping IS a dictator.
He is leader for life in a non-democratic country.
The description is not completely accurate.
But it’s close enough.
https://www.afr.com/world/asia/china-s-xi-jinping-confirmed-as-leader-for-life-elevates-loyalists-20221023-p5bs53
It falls under Diplomacy 101. But I guess that would apply to those who actually want diplomacy.