New Zealand Prime Minister Directly Undermines Biden On China

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said Thursday he does not share President Joe Biden’s recent assessment that Chinese President Xi Jinping is a “dictator.”

Hipkins is slated to make an official trip to China at the end of June, and reporters asked him Thursday if he shared Biden’s opinion on Xi, the authoritarian ruler of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The prime minister said China’s domestic governance was an internal matter for the Chinese people to handle.