China: Biden's dictatorial behavior extremely wrong and irresponsible
China condemns Joe Biden's comment that Xi Jinping would be a dictator. That's what Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning says after the two world leaders met in the United States.
- This type of statement is extremely wrong and irresponsible political manipulation. China firmly opposes it, she says according to Reuters.
President Xi himself says after the meeting that China is "ready to be America's partner and friend", writes AFP.
- We should build more bridges and pave more roads for interaction between people, Xi said at a dinner with businessmen and officials after the meeting.
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Joe Biden after the meeting: Xi Jinping is a dictator
US President Joe Biden once again called his Chinese counterpart a dictator during the press conference that followed the meeting between the two world leaders late on Wednesday evening, Swedish time.
- He is a dictator in the sense that he is a guy who rules a country that is communist and that is based on a form of government that is completely different from ours, Biden said according to Reuters.
Despite the statement, the meeting is described in several media as a success. China and the US are said to have agreed, among other things, to resume military talks and to cooperate to stop the illegal production of the drug fentanyl.
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Analysis: May have been the most important thing Biden does this year
Joe Biden describes the meeting with Xi Jinping as "the most constructive and productive" that the two world leaders have ever held. But the New York Times' David Sanger and Katie Rogers state in an analysis that the results that have become known are modest and that the most important commitments that have been communicated are that the parties should continue to talk and "pick up the phone when there is a crisis".
The AP news agency writes that the duo seemed keen to show the world that they are not locked in any uncompromising confrontation.
- The planet is big enough for both our countries to succeed, Xi commented.
CNN's Stephen Collinson notes that the mood between the countries is the "bitterest" in 50 years, but that the meeting may now have "closed the trap door" into which the world's most important diplomatic relationship was in danger of falling.
"The agreement to re-establish contact between the American and Chinese military may well be the most important thing Biden does this year," he writes.
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