President of the United States, Joe Bidenconfirmed this Wednesday that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping is a “dictator”.

After meeting with him for more than four hours, Biden gave a press conference, at which at the end the journalist shouted at him if he still considered Xi a “dictator.”

“Well, look, it’s like that” – answered the American leader.

At a fundraiser for his 2024 re-election campaign last June, Biden called Xi a “dictator” for the first time. which caused great discomfort for the Asian giant.

At another fundraising event last night in San Francisco and on the eve of the highly anticipated meeting, the American President said that China has ‘real problems’ without specifying what exactly he meant.

Meeting face to face, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, first in a year between the two leaders after the one they held for about three hours in November 2022 in Bali (Indonesia) during the G20 summit.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Nao Ming assured at a press conference that the statement of the US President “This is extremely wrong and represents an irresponsible political act. “China is completely against this.”

“It should be noted that there is always people with ulterior motives “who are trying to provoke and undermine relations between China and the United States,” the spokesman added.

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Mao said, “These people know very well who is trying to undermine Sino-American relations,” and emphasized that in this regard, “they won’t succeed either.”

Hours earlier, Xi Jinping urged the US “not to bet against China.” nor “interfere in their internal affairs”, during a dinner with American businessmen in San Francisco, which was attended, in particular, Elon Musk of Tesla and Tim Cook of Apple.

Xi attended the meeting after meeting hours earlier with his US counterpart Joe Biden to try to stabilize ties and prevent open conflict due to their competitive relationship.

“China never bets against the United States and never interferes in its internal affairs. China has no intention of challenging or displacing the United States. On the contrary, we will be happy to see a confident, open, ever-growing and prosperous United States,” the Chinese leader said in his speech, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

In addition, Xi Jinping expressed hope that Washington “Welcome to a peaceful, stable and prosperous China.”

This was stated by the president of the Asian giant. It would be a “mistake” to view China, which is “committed to peaceful development,” as a “threat.” and play a “zero-sum game” against her.

Xi Jinping emphasized that mutually beneficial cooperation This is a “current trend” and an “inherent feature” of relations between the two powers.

(according to information from EFE)