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Jordan King

Joe Biden calls Chinese leader Xi Jingping ‘dictator’ right after carefully-planned summit

The US president said he has not changed his views on Xi Jinping being a “dictator” despite a summit held to ease relations between the two countries.

Mr Biden held a solo news conference after four hours of talks with Xi, on the outskirts of San Francisco on Wednesday, where he was asked whether he still held the view that Xi was a dictator – something he had said in June.

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