Joe Biden defends his calling China’s Xi Jinping a dictator as India’s Narendra Modi gets state visit


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US President Joe Biden defended his recent description of Chinese President Xi Jinping as a “dictator” on Thursday during a joint press conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose track record on human rights and press freedom has made some in Biden’s Democratic Party uneasy.

Biden said the “idea of my choosing and avoiding saying what I think is the facts with regard to [our] relationship with India, with China, is not something I’m going to change very much”.

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