US President Joe Biden says Xi Jinping told him Quad was against China

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ United States President Joe Biden on Friday said his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping once told him that he was strengthening Quad against China. “I indicated to Xi Jinping that I was going to pull together the Quad: Australia, India, Japan, and the United States. He said, ‘You’re just doing that to affect us.’

 I said, ‘No, it’s because we’re trying to put together those folks who have an opportunity to work together in the Indo-Pacific’,” Biden said during a party fundraiser event at a private residence in Seattle.

“The point being that one of the things that the autocrats fear the most — and India has its own problems; all those countries have their own problems — is the notion that somehow we can work together in concert and contrary to what are essentially dictatorships, which a lot of countries have become, particularly not only China but Russia and many other countries…the Philippines,” he said.