Of course Xi Jinping is a dictator

At a fundraiser last week, President Biden committed such a " Kinsley gaffe " while speaking about his administration's efforts to improve relations with Beijing. The reason why Chinese ruler Xi Jinping "got very upset" when that spy balloon full of electronic equipment was shot down by a US Air Force jet in February, the president said , "is he didn't know it was there." That, he added, is "a great embarrassment for dictators." "A gaffe," the journalist Michael Kinsley once wrote, "is when a politician tells the truth — some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say." Advertisement The…