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China has lashed out at Germany after its foreign minister called Xi Jinping a “dictator” and summoned Berlin’s ambassador for a dressing down, in the latest flaring of tensions with a western democratic power over how the Chinese leader is described overseas.

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

Someone who jails people over depicting them in a mocking way is a dictator.

Someone who bans historic events and pretends they never happened is a dictator.