deserted beijing, if you can remember that, deserted beijing, if you can rememberthat, deserted beijing, if you can remember that, visited beijing. there was an idea that maybe these two may soften their tone towards each other when he met with president xi but that visit was tarnished a few hours later when president biden was overheard at a fundraiser, calling president xi a dictator so ms yellen is hoping to pave the new way to try to bring down tensions between these too. at, try to bring down tensions between these too. a delicate tri if between these too. a delicate trip if nothing between these too. a delicate trip if nothing else! let s get some of the day s other news now. twitter has moved to temporarily limit how many tweets accounts can read in a day. according to its boss elon musk, the move is to discourage what he called were extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation. verified accounts can read up to 10,000 posts a day while unverified ones have
meantime as china pushes back the state department has doubled down on president biden s remark that his chinese counter part is a, dictator . watch. we won t hesitate to call out areas where we disagree or be blunt and forthright about those differences and of course one of those areas the president and secretary have been clear about is the differences between democracies and autocracies. trace: let s bring in former trump foreign policy kiron skinner. great to have you f he called president xi a dictator. saying it was irresponsible and extremely absurd. what s your take on the remark. i agree with the first that it was irresponsible given that the biden administration had basically begged its way to the china meeting that the secretary of state just had this week. and for mows they ve been trying to have this meeting after having cancelled an earlier
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u.s. ambassador lynn tracy was not allowed inside the courtroom but spoke to reporters outside condemning this decision. such hostage diplomacy is unacceptable and we call on the russian federation to release him, as well as paul whalen, another u.s. citizen wrongfully detained. gershkovitch had an official credential from russia to report there. he is accused of spying and gather secret military information. the u.s. denies the charges declaring him wrongfully desand. in april his legal team appealed forward him to be held on house arrest until the trial and it was denied. if he is found guilty we know he could face up to 20 years behind bars. martha: we should bring them both home. bill: president biden apparently on the west coast this week calling chinese president xi a dictator.
equipment in it that he didn t know was there referring to president xi. congressman james, again, is this the way to do diplomacy with a man that you have to deal with? the first thing is to dealing with the problem to acknowledge that you have one. it is telling the truth. i think that this is a first step. we ve been saying this in congress in a bipartisan manner established a committee to see exactly how china has been hurting us. now to have the president on board is a necessary first step. i think that blinken just left. the president is telling the truth. i think with congress looking out to protect the american people against the malign actions of the ccp in my state in particular forcing businesses like ford motor company and general motors to partner with entities of concern rather than building our own technology and supply chains and deploying our own american workforce is problematic.