Had Donald Trump been the U.S. president hosting this week’s APEC meetings, I have no doubt that the headline from the event would have been unchanged. It would have been: “He’s a dictator.”
The only difference is it would be Xi Jinping who was saying it to describe Trump.
Other than that, though, a Trump-hosted APEC meeting would likely have been unrecognizably different from the successful and productive forum hosted by President Joe Biden.
“Typical politician Biden refuses to call Xi a dictator”. “Biden’s so mentally incompetent, he can’t even answer a simple yes or no question” ah yes, I can clearly see how these headlines would be so much better