CNN —When President Joe Biden referred to his Chinese counterpart as a dictator late Tuesday in California, the response from Beijing was swift and angry.
Whether the new acrimony further derails a “thaw” in US-China ties, something that Biden has openly hoped for, remained an open question.
“He didn’t know about it,” Biden told donors.
Biden and Xi last met at a G20 conference in Bali.
“You just saw what’s happened in Italy in that election,” Biden told the donors and Democratic officials at a Washington, D.C. fundraiser.
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