Had Donald Trump been the U.S. president hosting this week’s APEC meetings, I have no doubt that the headline from the event would have been unchanged. It would have been: “He’s a dictator.”
The only difference is it would be Xi Jinping who was saying it to describe Trump.
Other than that, though, a Trump-hosted APEC meeting would likely have been unrecognizably different from the successful and productive forum hosted by President Joe Biden.
To be fair, a ham sandwich would’ve handled Xi’s visit better than Trump too.
##HamSandwich2024
#YesWeHam
I thought we were
convictingindicting ham sandwichesNo you indict a ham sandwich, you convict criminals.
Yeah, exactly. Next year, you’ll have a choice between an actual president or a human train wreck.
This is not going to be a popular opinion on here, but when it comes to Asia, Biden’s foreign policy is almost indistinguishable from Trump’s.
Basically: aggressive ratcheting of trade and tech restrictions on China; gum up the international trading framework (e.g. WTO dispute resolution process); try to woo China’s neighbors but steadfastly ignore their requests for better trade access with the US; discourage Chinese scientists and students from coming to the US. All of these initiatives originated under Trump, and are being continued under Biden, with minor tweaks.
For different reasons though
Biden did not “skillfully handle” this at all. He foolishly damaged relations with China even further by calling Xi a dictator after going to the trouble of planning this summit.
If you cowards would vote for the Green party or any other party this wouldn’t be a problem. Instead, you support the Democrats who don’t even try to repair the damage the Republicans do. They both get rich from it together.
Why would i shoot myself in the dick when I could just watch you shoot yourself in the dick?
You do that every time you vote Democrat or Republican
Because I’m sure whoever you vote for has a good chance of getting into office. For sure the president in 2024 will be neither Biden nor Trump. It’ll be whoever you vote for. It’s not like we only have two viable options or anything…
Ironically the polling is showing RFK has a reasonable chace of winning. That opens up the lane for Jill Stein to compete as well.
No it doesn’t. No poll shows he has a reasonable chance of winning. That’s a lie.
20% absolutely is. He can easily gain 10% more to get to 30% and win it.
How can he ‘easily gain 10%?’ Why would it be easy? You say a lot of things without any evidence to support them.
Also, that was a telephone poll, so it was extremely inaccurate.
To be fair, skillfully is not a Trump skill
And by “skillfully” they surely mean Joe calling Xi “a dictator” shortly after their meeting, while lots of press press was around.
Good. Call it like he sees it. Fuck Xi and fuck his simps.
yeah exactly. not sure why i’m getting downvoted to hell for just stating this. it wasn’t by mistake, he told it to the press by choice.
Should Biden kowtow to Xi? He is a dictator and speaking truth matters.
he chose his words well
And if he said “well there are lots of different types of governments and we can all work together” or some non answer then the headlines would be “biden refuses to call him a dictator”. It’s a no win so the best course was to say it and smooth it over later because maybe it signals they can both be truthful.
Lots of good came out of this meeting overall in my opinion.
