Joe Biden said on Wednesday he had not changed his view that Chinese President Xi Jinping was effectively a dictator, a comment likely to land with a thud in Beijing after the two leaders held straightforward summit talks. Biden, standing solo after four hours of talks with Xi on the outskirts of San Francisco, was asked whether he still considered the Chinese leader to be “a guy who runs a country that’s a dictatorship in the sense that it’s one-party
