A video has captured the moment US Secretary of State Antony Blinken winces after President Biden calls Chinese leader Xi Jinping a “dictator”.

During a press conference in the wake of a meeting designed to smooth frayed US-China relations, Biden was asked whether he stood by remarks in June in which he described Xi as a “dictator.”

“Look, he is. He’s a dictator in the sense that he’s a guy who runs a country that is a communist country that’s based on a form of government totally different than ours,” Biden said.

REPORTER: “Would you still refer to President Xi as a dictator?”

BIDEN: “Look, he is. He’s a dictator in the sense that he’s a guy who runs a country that is a communist country that’s based on a form of government totally different than ours,” pic.twitter.com/XSaoyUwMW5

— Moshe Schwartz (@YWNReporter) November 16, 2023

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Biden’s remarks came just hours after he met with Xi at the sidelines of the APEC summit in San Francisco in the first face-to-face meeting between the pair in a year.

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