Moshe Schwartz on X: “SEE THIS: Secretary of State Antony Blinken reacts to President Biden off-the-cuff remark calling China’s Xi Jinping a dictator. https://t.co/zngQb02zcV” / X (twitter.com)
all that work, all that expense, all that effort to hand pick 4 reporters (1 of which he couldn’t remember her name though I’m sure her name and picture were on the cue card he was reading off) to ask canned questions before Dopey was supposed to find the stage exit and wander off, and he screws it all up by turning around and going off script
BIDEN: “Look, he is. He’s a dictator in the sense that he’s a guy who runs a country that is a communist country that’s based on a form of government totally different than ours,”
Did he get him confused with the other dictator in Asia? Or did he write him love letters?
So you don’t like that Biden called Xi a dictator? Why?
BIDEN: “Look, he is. He’s a dictator in the sense that he’s a guy who runs a country that is a communist country that’s based on a form of government totally different than ours,”
Did he get him confused with the other dictator in Asia? Or did he write him love letters?
So you don’t like that Biden called Xi a dictator? Why?
I’m sure it came as a complete shock to Xi that he is a dictator.
we were soooooo close. We got Dopey through the entire day without falling asleep. We got him all the way through the scripted press conference with only once almost disclosing more than he should about our negotiations in Israel.
He had turned and was shuffling somewhere in the general direction of an exit.
And then he paused and turned and took a question that was not pre-scripted…
competent, adults in the room restoring our status in the international community. Projecting strength and resolve.
my question is the same, is this the best you can do… Sad.
I am honestly confused about your point. You think Biden is weak when talking with dictators?
I think the point is that it probably wasn’t Foggy Bottom’s game plan to tell the blatant truth, and Biden did.
But both sidesing this one (which i think is fair heading into an election year), I’d prefer bleating out the truth to telling bizarre fetish-fantasies about dictators.
And Biden’s filterless gaffes are a lifelong thing.
My favorite thing about Biden is that generally what he does/says doesnt make the headline news.
I have said this before, I am pretty much fine with the middle 50% of either GOP/Dem and I think we need both feet to walk. I was fine with Bush 1 (voted for him), clinton (didnt vote for him), bush 2s (voted for him both term), obama (voted for him first term), and Biden (voted for him). I would have been fine with Romney (voted for him), McCain, Gore, etc…
I am just not sure what tylers point is? Calling a dictator a dictator is weak? Its a gaffe / politically incorrect in a meeting?
Once again, Biden is far from perfect - similar to bush 1, 2, clinton, obama, etc. None of this actually matters to me.
“Miscalculations on either side can or can cause real, real trouble with a country like China or any other major country,†Biden said at a news conference after meeting with Xi. “He and I agreed that each one of us could pick up the phone call directly, would be heard immediately.†President Biden
“I think I know the man. I know his modus operandi. We have disagreements. He has a different view than I have on a lot of things,†Biden said. “But he’s been straight. I don’t mean good, bad or indifferent — just been straight.†President Biden
to your point about the friendliness shown. Seems Xi also felt the time was right not to get into too much public confrontation. And the war hawks still do exist in the republican circles
Some Republicans argue that Biden’s meeting with Xi has come at too high a price. While the president is seeking to show that he and his team can responsibly manage the China relationship, Republican hawks in Congress have criticized the administration as insufficiently tough on Beijing.
Nonetheless, with Biden grappling with conflicts in the Middle East and Europe and a reelection campaign at home, and Xi facing major economic challenges, both leaders stood to benefit “domestically and internationally†by showing they could hold a productive meeting, Da said.
“If they have a successful summit,†he said, “that will send out a constructive signal to the whole world.â€
HIs approach is to take any gaffe and catastrophize it to sky-is-falling level.
Yes, it’s a gaffe if the U.S. approach is that engagement with China and working with an at-times brutal dictator as a peer is the most expedient approach. I get that. Is the sky falling? No, it’s not.
I’d prefer Buttiegieg, though. President Booty would be 100% on the Foggy Bottom game plan.
And Rs would rail against Biden if he refused to call him a dictator. Maybe the more politic response would have been to duck the question. His answer actually has some nuance to it. It is hardly some gaffe that defeats the purpose of the meeting.
And Rs would rail against Biden if he refused to call him a dictator. Maybe the more politic response would have been to duck the question. His answer actually has some nuance to it. It is hardly some gaffe that defeats the purpose of the meeting.
Exactly this.
MAGAts claim Biden is “owned” by China, but he tells it like it is (wasn’t that a selling point for TFG?) and somehow it’s a terrible thing.
