By EFE
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, avoided this Friday, in response to questions from journalists, describing the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, as a “dictator” and assured that this issue is not raised.
“I don’t think about it. He is the president of China. I don’t think about it”he told the press aboard the Air Power One presidential plane returning to Washington, after meeting with Xi in Beijing.
The American leader made these statements when a journalist asked him if he believes Xi is a “dictator,” a term used by his predecessor, Democrat Joe Biden.
“What I believe is that President Biden was an incompetent president. He gave us the nuclear deal that allowed Iran to get a nuclear weapon,” Trump declared, even though the nuclear deal was with Barack Obama.
In June 2023, then-President Biden, who never traveled to China during his term, called Xi a “dictator” for the confrontation over an alleged Chinese spy balloon in the United States, a term he repeated after meeting with the Chinese leader in November of that year in San Francisco (USA).
Trump concluded a two-day visit to Beijing this Friday with the aim of seeking stability between the two great world powers, a trip marked by the economic disruptions of the Iran war.
The meeting between the two was marked by harmony and Trump this Friday described his state visit to China as “very successful,” according to Xinhua, and once again presented Xi as an “old friend” with whom he maintains a “good relationship.”
The closeness scene reached its climax in Zhongnanhai, the Chinese Communist Party complex, where the two walked among ancient trees and rose bushes before a small-format meeting, with Trump praising the complex’s flowers and Xi promising to send him seeds for the White House Rose Garden.
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