China said Biden had made a 'public political provocation' by referring to Xi Jinping as a dictator
“The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset, in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two boxcars full of spy equipment in it, is he didn’t know it was there,” Biden said. “That’s what the great embarrassment for dictators—when they didn’t know what happened.”
Blinken made a rescheduled trip to Beijing earlier this week, in which the two sides pledged to resume some high-level communications.Biden’s comments—and China’s response—show how fragile ties are between the world’s two largest economies, which still have fundamental disagreements on issues spanning human rights and technology to trade and weapons sales to Taiwan.
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