Posted on 06/21/2023 4:28:51 AM PDT by FarCenter
KENTFIELD, California/BEIJING (Reuters) -- China hit back on Wednesday after U.S. President Joe Biden referred to President Xi Jinping as a "dictator," saying the remarks were absurd and a provocation, in an unexpected spat immediately following efforts by both sides to lower tensions.
Biden's comments came just a day after top U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Beijing to stabilize bilateral relations that China says are at their lowest point since formal ties were established.
Attending a fundraiser in California, Biden said Xi was very embarrassed when a suspected Chinese spy balloon was blown off course over U.S. airspace early this year, making a personal comment on the Chinese leader when Blinken said on Monday the "chapter" should be closed.
"The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment in it was he didn't know it was there," Biden said.
"That's a great embarrassment for dictators. When they didn't know what happened. That wasn't supposed to be going where it was. It was blown off course," Biden added.
Xi became China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong after securing a precedent-breaking third term as president in March and head of the Communist Party in October.
Biden also said China "has real economic difficulties."
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said Biden's remarks were "extremely absurd" and "irresponsible".
Expressing China's strong dissatisfaction, foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Biden's comments seriously violated facts, diplomatic protocol and China's political dignity.
"They're an open political provocation," she told a news conference.
Asked how aware Xi had been about the balloon's movements, Mao reiterated China's previous explanation that the passage of the balloon through U.S. airspace had been unintended and caused by circumstances beyond its control.
"Biden's big mouth is a loose cannon," said Wu Xinbo, director of the Center for American Studies at Fudan University in Shanghai.
"Mutual trust is what China has been stressing, so Biden's comments are very destructive and damaging," Wu said, while adding that the remarks may not totally undo what Blinken had achieved on his China visit.
Oooooh. The Biden Administration didn’t acquiesce enough to their CCP overlords. Don’t worry, they didn’t threaten to cut DNC funding yet.
Sounds like they called their employee in on the carpet.
Biden is not a dictator. He’s a potato.
If the Ukrainians are cowards then why didn’t Mighty Russia conquer them in ten days as was planned?
>>Two boxcars full? That is not only a really weird thing to say, it seems unlikely.
IIRC, it was described as being as large as a bus. However, it would be nowhere as heavy.
“No one here at FR should be surprised by ANY of this. There is no justice in this country right now, the USA is a banana republic and one step away from a dictatorship.”
For 27 seconds on Tuesday night, Fox News posted a chyiron beneath a video of President Biden: “Wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested.”
That sparked a media uproar over what was portrayed as the biggest breach of decorum since the 1865 assassination of President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater.
https://brownstone.org/articles/defining-dictator-down-wont-make-us-free/
China has the goods on the Biden family and are beginning to make their move.
“No one here at FR should be surprised by ANY of this. There is no justice in this country right now, the USA is a banana republic and one step away from a dictatorship.”
For 27 seconds on Tuesday night, Fox News posted a chyiron beneath a video of President Biden: “Wannabe dictator speaks at the White House after having his political rival arrested.”
That sparked a media uproar over what was portrayed as the biggest breach of decorum since the 1865 assassination of President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater.
https://brownstone.org/articles/defining-dictator-down-wont-make-us-free/
They don’t need to cut DNC funding they already own it and have for a very long time.
I have two additional thoughts:
Bureaucratic inertia and turf battles within the CCP permitted the blimp program to go forward even though it might have been redundant.
The slow moving blimp may have been capturing something completely different than the satellites. I don’t know what however
It would make for a great Ben Garrison (?) comic: “The Day the Pot Called the Kettle Black.” Then follows a wild-eyed, hopping Biden atop a list of abuses that scrolls under Xi’s feet, too.
It's worse than I thought: Go Brandon's a dic-tater.
everting is so series wid’dem
Entirely possible. Also quite possible that bureaucratic inertia and turf battles on our side were why Brandon didn’t know about it.
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