“The U.S. welcomes the emergence of a prosperous, integrated China on the global stage, because we expect this is going to be a China that plays by the rules,” Mr. Biden told Mr. Jiang”
Biden has been a major part of every foreign and domestic disaster over the past 47 yrs
Biden has been a major part of every foreign and domestic disaster over the past 47 yrs
“But Mr. Biden...was also there in Beidaihe in 2001 to help usher in an important era in America’s relationship with China — the building of a commercial link that would allow the Communist nation entry into the World Trade Organization.”
Biden “returned to Washington seeing more promise than peril, offering reporters the same message he had delivered to Chinese leaders: [we] welcomed China’s emergence “as a great power, because great powers adhere to international norms in nonproliferation, human rights & trade”
“Mr. Biden says he has had a “long interest in the evolving nature of the Chinese Communist Party” from his first visit to the country “as a kid in the Senate” in April 1979”
“Hosting Chinese officials as the VP in May 2011, Mr. Biden recalled that trip fondly...he “believed then what I believe now: that a rising China is a positive, positive development, not only for China but for America and the world writ large.”
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