US President Joe Biden compared Chinese President Xi Jinping to a "dictator" during a political fundraiser in California on Tuesday evening. Yesterday, however, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that his latest visit had brought progress in restoring the broken relations between Washington and Beijing.
“Xi Jinping was so upset when I shot down that balloon with two boxes of spy equipment because he didn't know it was there. I am serious: It's a big shame for the dictators when they didn't know what was going on," Biden told the fundraiser, referring to the Chinese spy balloon that the US brought down earlier this year.
