‘Extra embarrassing than intentional’: Joe Biden on this Xi Jinping misstep | World News

US president Joe Biden mentioned that he hopes to satisfy his Chinese language counterpart Xi Jinping inside the subsequent few months saying that Beijing's leaders weren’t conscious of particulars surrounding an alleged spy balloon that the US shot down in February.

“China has some reputable difficulties unrelated to the US. I believe one of many issues that balloon brought about was not a lot that it received shot down. However I don’t suppose that the management knew the place it was or knew what was in it and knew what was occurring," Joe Biden mentioned.

“I believe it was extra embarrassing than it was intentional,” he mentioned earlier than boarding Air Pressure One including that he’s “hoping that over the subsequent a number of months I’ll be assembly Xi once more.”

Joe Biden’s feedback coincide with a visit by US secretary of state Antony Blinken to Beijing to satisfy senior Chinese language officers in an try to decrease tensions between the world’s two largest economies. Blinken’s authentic journey was postponed after the uproar over the spy balloon that had crossed the US from west to east earlier than being shot down by a fighter jet off the South Carolina coast.

Joe Biden and Xi Jinping met in Bali, Indonesia final November. Furthermore, on Russian president Vladimir Putin’s announcement that Moscow delivered its first tactical nuclear weapons to neighboring Belarus, Joe Biden reiterated that he views the transfer as “completely irresponsible.”