Biden Makes a Habit of Dissing Chinese Innovation
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It’s starting to look like a habit: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden once again has vented on China, this time while giving the commencement address on Wednesday to nearly 1,000 cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
While heralding American ingenuity, the vice president said that China, by contrast, had not developed “one innovative project, one innovative change, one innovative product.” How did the straight-shooting—or notoriously gaffe-prone, to the less charitable—politician come to dissing China’s creative prowess this time? He started by giving a shout-out to American enterprise.