The Chinese government summoned the US ambassador in Beijing to lodge a formal complaint over President Biden calling Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator,” The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
US officials said that a diplomatic note, known as a démarche, was delivered to US Ambassador Nicolas Burns just hours after Secretary of State Antony Blinken departed Beijing. Over in the US, the Chinese Embassy in Washington said that it “made serious representations and strong protests” to US officials over Biden’s comments.
The Chinese embassy said that Biden’s “disparaging” remarks were “erroneous, absurd and irresponsible, and form an open political provocation.”
President Biden on Thursday defended his rhetoric and downplayed the potential consequences, saying his language when speaking about China “is just not something I’m going to change very much.” He claimed that he doesn’t think his comment will have any “real consequences.”
But the diplomatic spat risks reversing what little progress Blinken made in China. Blinken met with high-level officials, including President Xi, and 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.
Biden said that Blinken had a “great trip” to China and that he expects to be meeting with Xi soon. He made the comments while holding a joint press conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is in Washington on an official state visit as the US is boosting ties with India as part of its strategy against China in the region.
China is doing the obvious straightforward action: bringing world wide attention to Biden’s speech.
There is nothing they could say that would trash the US more than that speech, especially being just a day after Blinken’s comments the day before.
This has been Biden’s MO since at least the 1990s when he claimed to have written the USA Patriot Act. He brags that “Christians” can be Zionists and has been a fervent supporter of all the wars of this century. He’s an organ grinder’s monkey, little tin cup and all.
I know nothing, but am still entitled to a “feeling.” I think Biden is going to pull a Johnson, who announced he was not seeking reelection in March 1968. Enter another satanic neocon, cough and choke: Hillary Clinton, to compete with RFK Jr and probably sooner than March 2024? Remember folks, it’s a “feeling.” You can’t argue with “feelings” and don’t shoot the “feeler.” (Sarcasm alert)
Personally, I thought he had already decided against seeking a second term when he actually followed through on the Afghanistan withdrawal. At the time, it looked like he wanted to go ride off into the sunset of history as a “peace president.” Obviously I was quite wrong about that.
Umm..he is a dictator. They don’t rule us. He can get over it.
China seems to be overly sensitive, in my opinion… All world leaders tend to have some dictatorial tendencies.
Biden needs a muzzle. That would solve a lot of our diplomatic problems, and make us appear as semi-rational global citizens as well.
I’m not ruling out that Biden simply *forgot* he sent Blinken over to try and soothe things over with the Chinese at the same time when he made that inflammatory speech. Just today Biden started to pledge allegiance to the Indian national anthem on video before he put his hand down awkwardly.
This is the kind of dotard president we have right now, unfortunately. And now we’re back to square one again in trying to reset US-China relations… Better send more warships through the Taiwan Strait! That’ll really sure bring peace there!
Dude this is all theater. You really think us and china are at odds when they obviously collaborated together to release Covid on the world. How do we know that besides us funding the wuhan lab? How bout the fact that our leaders seem to be unconcerned with the fact that china may have leaked it and killed off millions of our people. Even an accident would be cause for belligerence. But we tried to hide the possibility of a lab leak. Which means we are working with the Chinese, and this bs is a show for consumption by us dupes.
Long live the Queen…
“God save the Queen! she ain’t a human bean! …”
… Johnny Rotten
IF the yanks think they can turn India against Russia they can think again , Modi will play Biden like a second hand fiddle .
They can’t turn India against Russia but they can keep it against China. The Yanks told India and many other countries to boycott Russia and they did not listen.
I am Indian and am disappointed in the people for re-electing Modi but agree with him on not getting on board with sanctions against Russia.
It’s really bad form to be calling out an elder who is suffering from obvious decline for what they say.
The Chinese know how to admonish without being so mean to an elderly gent and I would like to believe they would do so in Joe’s case but they must be getting tired of his inane babbling about God saving “the Queen” and other drool that they are say what needs to be said; the heck with the old guy’s feelings. He’ll forget that they chewed him out and he’ll also forget he called anyone a “dictator”.
right! but to Biden’s credit, he did remember that he authored the patriot act and also realized that the China spy-balloon was “carrying 2 box-cars of spy technology”. before he shot it down.
But he also said it got “blown off course” which is a strange thing to call what it was doing as it was circling over military bases.
The Chinese government summoned the US ambassador in Beijing to lodge a formal complaint over President Biden calling Chinese President Xi Jinping a “dictator,”
ok i don’t like Biden but really i don’t care what he called the China president.
is Xi not a dictator? we don’t know because there is very little news coming our way from China. maybe ask the Uighurs or even the regular China people what their opinion is.
and there is no telling what China govt says about Biden or any other world leader behind their black-out rice curtain, is there.
Benefits of being a dictatorship
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aGVALn2VfvA
You could try visiting their website (it’s even in English!), or better still, go there and see for yourself. You might learn something about what challenges they have faced and how seriously they take the notion that citizens shouldn’t have to live under bridges in cardboard boxes, as they do all over the Great USA.
I’ve grown to get seriously PO’ed at how uninquisitive so many westerners are about places beyond the reach of our sheltered media.
When I went looking for pictures of homeless people living in cardboard boxes under bridges in China, I couldn’t find any. I wonder why.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/eea60b7d4655009a34ef98bfa5daaa495e9e50c027f7344aca42609cef41cb25.jpg
Ha. 🙄
Does China’s government persecute China’s people?
https://www.google.com/search?q=does+china+government+persecute+chinese+people&source=hp&ei=hvOVZM6lLd7LkPIP-eutyAg&iflsig=AOEireoAAAAAZJYBlrhPVRigRyfaeWdn3nXHVIM1IMxR&ved=0ahUKEwjOgKuZkdr_AhXeJUQIHfl1C4kQ4dUDCAs&uact=5&oq=does+china+government+persecute+chinese+people&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAM6CwguEIAEELEDEIMBOhEILhCABBCxAxCDARDHARDRAzoLCAAQgAQQsQMQgwE6CwgAEIoFELEDEIMBOgUIABCABDoOCC4QgAQQsQMQxwEQ0QM6CAgAEIAEELEDOgQIABADOg0IABCKBRCxAxCDARAKOgYIABADEAo6BggAEBYQHjoFCCEQoAE6BQghEKsCOggIIRAWEB4QHToFCAAQogQ6CAgAEIkFEKIEUABYiZwBYIifAWgAcAB4AIABfIgB_BuSAQQzOS43mAEAoAEB&sclient=gws-wiz#ip=1
Go to Brian Berletic’s New Atlas YouTube channel. He had a live chat this very morning with Carl Zha and Angelo Guliano, two gentlemen with extensive experience on the ground in China. I trust them a lot more than I would trust western funded “human rights groups” you find on a Google search.
ok i will do that right now
Will the Dems still want to try and get this decrepit, moldy mildewed, senile, nasty, corrupt old grifter across the finish line again in 24 by any means necessary? As the saying goes, ‘Joe could f up a wet dream’. https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/06/no_author/biden-crashes-down-the-stairs-of-u-s-china-reset/
I thought you were talking about Trump until you typed ‘Joe’.
They are both pathetic old farts.
“He claimed that he doesn’t think”
You can stop with that, you fool. Find something less destructive to do with the remainder of your Callboy for the PNAC.
“He claimed that he doesn’t think his comment will have any “real consequences.””
really, why would it? the uncle sam’s and the uncle ivan’s and the uncle mao’s all know that their empty rhetoric is part of the game.
They’re empty in their rhetoric, their inside, and outside–except for a dark satanic demonic spirit swerling around as ugly as a toilet full of $hit.
The old buffer randomly spouting sh..t again revealing the truth as his gormless chief hypocrat (US diplomat) tries to sweet talk his chinese hosts. You couldnt make this up. Such a comedy.
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As Biden discharges a turd onto Xi’s face, “Biden said that Blinken had a ‘great trip’ to China and that he expects to be meeting with Xi soon.” …No. Not actually, but almost actually. (Sarcasm alert)
Is this standard diplomatic protocol?… 😉
I can’t shake the sense that there could be a power play happening at State. I don’t know why Wendy Sherman resigned as Deputy Secretary of State. But I’ve heard that Nuland will replace her.
Biden’s childish remark about Xi undermined the relationship between Blinken and Xi, and very likely undermined any progress their talks might have accomplished.
‘Lodges a formal complaint’.
🥱
The word diplomacy is not in Biden’s vocabulary but he is good at setting the world onfire from Europe to Asia