Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Cooperation Summit in Bangkok on November 19, 2022. ATHIT PERAWONGMETHA/REUTERS Connect
Correspondent in Asia
Joe Biden did not miss the opportunity to tease his Chinese rival in the midst of the “ballonwhich poisons relations between the two leading world powers. “Find me a single ruler willing to trade places with Xi Jinping… I can’t find any“, launched the American president, in the wake of his speech on the state of the Union, where he posed as a defender of the “American sovereigntyagainst China. “This man has a lot of problems“, notably “an economy that does not work well“, insisted Joe Biden, in front of the cameras of PBS television.
Beijing immediately castigated the remarks “totally irresponsiblefrom the White House, after sharply denouncing the decision to shoot down his balloon over the Atlantic on February 4, even demanding that Washington repatriate the debris. A request swept away by the Pentagon, which methodically dissects the recovered device, claiming that it is indeed a sophisticated spy tool capable…
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