Biden defends blunt remark on Xi Jinping, saying that’s ‘just not something I’m going to change’

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Open this photo in gallery: U.S. President Joe Biden answers a question during a joint press conference with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House in Washington, on June 22.EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/Reuters President Joe Biden said Thursday that his comments calling Chinese leader Xi Jinping a “dictator” did not undermine progress in the U.S. relationship with China and that he expects to meet with Xi in future. Biden said his blunt statements regarding China are “just not something I’m going to change very much.” China’s government earlier Thursday registered a formal protest of his remarks. At a campaign fund-raiser...