President Joe Biden speaks to members of the United Steel Workers Union at the United Steel Workers Headquarters on April 17, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.Jeff Swensen/Getty ImagesJoe Biden on Wednesday painted a dire picture of China's economy to US steelworkers.Calling China "xenophobic," Biden unleashed some of his harshest comments ever about Beijing.Bashing China fits well into Biden's new election cadence of hyping up the US economy as a lasting, dominant force.President Joe Biden on Wednesday pitched his version of US-China relations to steelworkers in Pennsylvania — that Beijing isn't only failing to catch up, but struggling on its own.As he spoke at the US Steelworkers union headquarters in Pittsburgh, the president's hyperbolic rhetoric sounded almost Trump-esque."They've got a population that is more people in retirement than working," Biden said of China.