Joe Biden pushes back on critics who question his toughness on China.
Joe Biden said Saturday the threat posed by China is one the United States is well-equipped to confront, as he pushed back on criticism from Republicans who saw him as minimizing the Asian nation's power., the former vice president laughed at the suggestion he didn’t understand China’s economic and military might.
“I never said China’s not a threat. I said we can, if we invest the right way, we can defeat China in every way,” Biden said. “I'm the guy that told the Chinese that when they set up these air defense zones, we’re not going to pay attention. We're gonna fly right through them … China understands that our problems are negligible compared to what they have to face.”for remarks he made during campaign stops earlier this week in Iowa, in which he said China was “not competition for us.
Biden has for more than a year ended his campaign events by talking about a one-on-one dinner with Xi that year, when he explained to the Chinese leader that America’s secret to success was its endless sense of “possibility.” Biden said Saturday that China is a military threat, which is why it was so important the United States maintained its traditional alliances.Asked after his Columbia rally about Trump’s call Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Biden offered a curt response: “Who knows what he said.”
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