Posted on 11/17/2021 9:58:39 AM PST by elpadre
White House officials insisted on Tuesday that President Joe Biden does not consider China's President Xi Jinping an 'old friend' after an interpreter said as much during their virtual meeting on Mondahttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10211263/White-House-insists-Biden-Chinas-Xi-arent-old-friends-following-Monday-meeting.htmly.
'You've heard explicitly from the president himself, that he has a longstanding relationship with President Xi,' said White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates on Tuesday.
'They've spent a great deal of time together. They are able to have candid discussions, be direct with each other, which helps them be productive.
'But he does not consider President Xi an old friend,' Bates told reporters.
Biden and Xi spent more than three hours in a virtual summit on Monday night in an effort to ease tensions between the world's two biggest economies
President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping exchanged pleasantries for the cameras at the top of their virtual summit Monday night
Xi appeared to troll Biden by greeting him as an 'old friend' at the meeting - in direct contradiction to repeated denials from both the president and Press Secretary Jen Psaki.
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Old comrades
Hey Xi,
Word of the day: nacho
As in Joe Biden is nacho friend.
Okay “Big Guy”...
Partners, friends, what’s the difference?
Lulz, busted.
And now the spin from being busted.
Getting played like a fiddle.
Xi speak with forked tongue. FORK JOE BIDEN
Why is it even in the news?
I think it is Hunter and Xi, yea?
They are most definitely “old friends”. Xi is calling in the favors Xiden promised him.
When Xi calls Joe his “old friend”, he’s reminding Joe of his corrupt business deals in China, which Xi has fully documented no doubt.
“My old friend Joe, don’t forget I have your testicles in my pocket.”
Is “old friend” and inaccurate? How about beloved pet? Useful livestock? Drooling doorstop?
Well, it’s more of a master/servant relationship, with dopey Joe playing the part of stepinfetchet.
“Why is it even in the news?”
That, too, was my first thought. And then I wondered why the WH is making such a big deal that Biden is not an “old friend?? Could it be he wants to obscure their real relationship??
Wipe your lips, BRANDON, there’s a smudge…
Ooh, so they are calling Xi a liar?
Old business partners
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