Biden Recalls Xi Jinping Once Complained To Him About Quad, And His Reply
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Joe Biden narrated how Chinese President Xi Jinping once complained to him about the Quad alliance. He said this during a party fundraiser event at a private residence in United States' Seattle.
US President Joe Biden has said that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping once told him that he was strengthening the Quad alliance in the Indo-Pacific "against China".
"I indicated to Xi Jinping that I was going to pull together the Quad: Australia, India, Japan, and the United States. He said, 'You're just doing that to affect us.' I said, 'No, it's because we're trying to put together those folks who have an opportunity to work together in the Indo-Pacific'," Joe Biden said during a party fundraiser event at a private residence in Seattle.
"The point being that one of the things that the autocrats fear the most - and India has its own problems; all those countries have their own problems - is the notion that somehow we can work together in concert and contrary to what are essentially dictatorships, which a lot of countries have become, particularly not only China but Russia and many other countries...the Philippines," he said.
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