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.
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.