(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, 07 FEB - The United States is ready for strong competition with China but does not want a conflict: American President Joe Biden affirms this in an interview in which he claims, however, that in Chinese President Xi Jinping "there is no bit of democracy ".
Biden, in the course of an interview with CBS, of which some advances were disclosed, confirmed that he had not yet had any telephone conversation with the Chinese leader, explaining however that there is no reason not to call him and remembering how as vice president he spent much more time with Xidi every other leader: "I know him very well, I had with him 24, 25 hours of private meetings and I traveled with him for thousands of kilometers," he recalls. "He's very smart, but he's too tough. He doesn't have a shred of democracy in him, and I don't laud it as a criticism, it's reality," adds Biden, who stresses that he won't tackle problems with China like Donald Trump did. (HANDLE).