On heels of Blinken’s fence-mending trip, Biden infuriates China with reference to Xi Jinping as ‘dictator’

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BIDEN UPSETS THE RESET: China’s Foreign Ministry is reacting angrily to remarks by President Joe Biden at a California fundraiser yesterday, in which he attempted to downplay the Chinese spy balloon incident by portraying Chinese President Xi Jinping as a clueless “dictator” who had no idea what his military was doing.

“Don’t worry about China,” Biden said as the crowd gathered in a private home laughed. “No, but I really mean it.”

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