During a news conference after President Joe Biden met with Xi Jinping, the President of the People’s Republic of China, a reporter asked Biden if he still believes Xi is a “dictator,” having labeled him that before. A fresh camera angle shows Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was sitting in the front row of the conference, visibly grimacing as Biden says the words “well, look, he is.”
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00:00 And Mr. President, after today, would you still refer to President Xi as a dictator?
00:04 This is a term that you used earlier this year.
00:07 Well, look, he is.
00:08 I mean, he's a dictator in the sense that he is a guy who runs a country that is a communist
00:14 country that is based on a form of government totally different than ours.
00:18 Anyway, you know what I'm saying.