future, the near term, and i don t think it has had any real consequence. and what was your second question? as you raise these broader issues of human rights and democracy, what is your message to those, including some members of your own party who believe that your administration is overlooking the targeting of religious minorities and a crackdown on descent in india. look, the prime minister and i had a good discussion on democratic values and there is a that s the nature of our relationship, we are straightforward with each other and we respect each other. one of the fundamental reasons that i believe u.s.-china relationship is not in the space as the u.s.-india relationship is that there is an overwhelming respect for each other because we are both democracies, and it s a common democratic character both our countries that, and our people, our diversity, our culture, our open tolerant robust debate and we believe the dignity of every citizen and it is in america s
multi-alignment, trying to have good relationship with everybody, including some we don t have good relationship with. sandra: his attempted, i don t know if you call it a clean up, addressing comments on xi being a dictator, says it did not undermine or complicate the relationship with china and don t think it had a real consequence. how do you think china will react to that. i really don t care. if you are going to blind squirrel, he was right to call xi a dictator. and people freaked out ronald reagan called the soviet the empire xi is crushing freedom in his country, unleashed a virus on us, apparently looks increasingly like we got the smoking gun came from the wuhan lab and the biden administration