President Joe Biden told reporters Wednesday after a four-hour meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping that he still considers him a “dictator” and that he warned him not to interfere in Taiwan’s elections next January.
“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 answered a reporter about his opinion on President Xi. “Anyway, we made progress.”
Biden and XI met at a historic estate outside of San Francisco estate on Wednesday. President Xi declared at the beginning of the meeting that the world is “big enough” for the two superpowers.
“The China-U.S. relationship has never been smooth sailing and always faces problems of one kind or another,” Xi said.
“Yet it has kept moving forward amidst twists and turns. For China and the United States, turning their back on each other is not an option,”
“It is unrealistic for one side to remodel the other, and conflict and confrontation have terrible consequences for both sides. Planet Earth is big enough for the two countries to succeed.”
