A day after saying the US seeks competition with Chinano conflict, president Joe Biden said his Chinese counterpart, Xi JinpingYou have “enormous problems”.

What happened: In conversation with PBS NewsHour, after the delivery of his state of the nation Address to the joint chambers of the US Congress, Biden said Beijing is constrained in its ability to confront Washington by the need to protect international trade, and that Xi himself is in an unenviable position.

“Can you think of any other world leader who would trade places with Xi Jinping? I can’t think of one,” Biden said.

“This man has enormous problems,” he said, adding, “so far he has an economy that isn’t doing very well.”

The US president also said Xi has “great potential.” However, Biden said the Chinese president is aware of his limited maneuverability when confronted with Western nations.

Biden believes Xi learned lessons from this Western answer against it Wladimir Putin — including the imposition of strong economic sanctions – after Russia penetrated Ukraine.

“I called him this summer to tell him, ‘That’s not a threat, just an observation — look what happened to Russia,'” Biden recalled.

Meanwhile, China said it was smeared in Biden’s State of the Union address, which has been mentioned repeatedly competition between the two countries.

“It is not the practice of a responsible country to slander a country or restrict the country’s legitimate development rights under the pretense of competition, even at the cost of disrupting the global industrial and supply chain,” the State Department spokesman said Mao Ning called.