Posted on 06/17/2021 9:17:10 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
At a press conference following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva , President Biden disputed a journalist’s characterization of Chinese President Xi Jinping as an “old friend” who might be persuaded to allow an international investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Let’s get something straight — we know each other well, we’re not old friends,” Biden said. “It’s just pure business.”
Fox News reporter Peter Doocy pressed Biden on whether his long-standing relationship with the Chinese leader could help the United States and other nations try to find out how, as researchers believe, the pandemic originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan sometime in late 2019.
“Is there going to become a time where you might call him, old friend to old friend, and ask him to open up China to the World Health Organization investigators who are trying to get to the bottom of COVID-19?” Doocy asked.
Biden may dispute the terms of his relationship with Xi, but during the presidential campaign he frequently invoked having traveled 17,000 miles with him as vice president to Barack Obama. Xi was the Chinese vice president at the time.
While scientific consensus has held that the virus began at a market, an alternate view is that it “escaped” from a laboratory where it was being studied.
Biden has allowed that China has not been forthcoming about how the coronavirus began, he has thus far failed to explain how he will confront the communist nation over the increasingly contentious issue of the pandemic’s origins.
“China is trying very hard to project itself as a responsible and very, very forthcoming nation,” the president said Wednesday.
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Xio apparently absent-mindedly strayed from his list of pre-approved, call-on-these reporters.
Anything but a softball question makes Xio show us just how much he’s “smarting.”
What is the nature of that business Joe? You're not supposed to be conducting business with any foreign government.
The only thing Biden knows about China is the plate he eats off of daily.
$1.6B @10% for the "Big Guy" = pure $160M
Purely business with Hunter Biden in charge of accounts receivable.
And math ...10% for the Big Guy
Pure business that jade the big guy huge amounts of money.
Bidens are even partners in the nuclear plant in China that may be melting down.
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