Biden pushes back at Fux Noise reporter's question on China
At a press conference following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva on Wednesday, President Biden disputed a journalist’s characterization of Chinese President Xi Jinping as an “old friend” who might be persuaded to allow an international investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Let’s get something straight — we know each other well, we’re not old friends,” Biden said. “It’s just pure business.”
Biden had several sharp exchanges with journalists after he concluded his bilateral meeting with Putin, including an especially heated one with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins. Before boarding Air Force One on his way back to Washington, he approached a scrum of reporters and apologized for being a “wise guy.”
The characterization of Biden and Xi as something other than adversaries came courtesy of Fox News reporter Peter Douchey, who has become a White House adversary in recent months. Douchey pressed Biden on whether his long-standing relationship with the Chinese leader could help as the United States and other nations try to find out how, as researchers believe, the pandemic originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan sometime in late 2019.
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