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‘Political provocation’: China hits back as Biden calls Xi ‘dictator’
Joe Biden qualifie Xi Jinping de «dictateur», «absurde» répond Pékin
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US president’s comments come just as two countries seek to dial down intense rivalry
China’s foreign ministry has accused the US president of “political provocation” after Joe Biden called Xi Jinping a “dictator”.
The comments “seriously violated China’s political dignity”, foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Wednesday.
Biden made the remarks a day after the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, met Xi on a trip to China that was aimed at easing tensions between the two countries. He also said Xi was embarrassed when a Chinese balloon was blown off course over the US earlier this year.
“The reason why Xi Jinping got very upset in terms of when I shot that balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment in it was he didn’t know it was there,” Biden said at a fundraiser in California on Tuesday.
“That’s a great embarrassment for dictators. When they didn’t know what happened. That wasn’t supposed to be going where it was. It was blown off course,” Biden added.
A suspected Chinese spy balloon flew over US airspace in February. That incident and exchanges of visits by US and Taiwanese officials have recently magnified US-China tensions.
In March, Xi secured a precedent-breaking third term as president, making him China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong.
Biden also said that China “has real economic difficulties”.
China’s economy stumbled in May with industrial output and retail sales growth missing forecasts, adding to expectations that Beijing will need to do more to shore up a shaky post-pandemic recovery. Lire la suite »
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