Of course Xi Jinping is a dictator

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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...