From CNN - May 2nd, 2019:
Biden downplays Chinese economic competition, drawing criticism from Republicans and Sanders
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden argued on Wednesday that China is “not competition” for the United States, downplaying the threat from the world’s second-largest economy.
And Joe's trademark expression:
“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man,” Biden said while campaigning in Iowa City, Iowa, arguing that China has problems of its own.
“They can’t even figure out how to deal with the fact that they have this great division between the China Sea and the mountains in the east, I mean in the west,” Biden said. “They can’t figure out how they’re going to deal with the corruption that exists within the system. I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what, they’re not, they’re not competition for us.”
And today - come on man: The New York Post - February 11th, 2021:
China is ‘going to eat our lunch’ on infrastructure, Biden says
President Biden on Thursday warned that the US would need to “step up” and fix its ailing infrastructure or be left behind by an economically surging China, which will “eat our lunch.”
Good that he finally recognized this but it certainly took him a little while...
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