US President Joe Biden said Wednesday he still believes Chinese President Xi Jinping is a dictator, even as the two leaders made progress in their relationship during a meeting outside San Francisco.

“Well, look, he’s a dictator in the sense that he is a guy who runs a country that is a communist country that’s based on a form of government totally different than ours,” Biden told CNN’s MJ Lee. “Anyway, we made progress.”

When asked about Biden’s latest comment at a Chinese Foreign Ministry briefing on Thursday, a spokesperson called it “extremely erroneous” and an “irresponsible political maneuver, which China firmly opposes.”

    • @Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      -11 year ago

      In China you can vote for 1 party but in America you can for for 2 (and 80% of their policies are the same) . Wow!

      • @bighi@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        01 year ago

        There are multiple parties in China.

        But political parties play a different role in socialist/communist countries. It’s not similar to how it works in most western countries.