“This will not age well,” Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) tweeted in response to Biden’s remark at an Iowa campaign stop.
By Felicia Sonmez Felicia Sonmez National reporter on The Washington Post's breaking political news team Email Bio Follow May 1 at 10:05 PM Former vice president Joe Biden on Wednesday dismissed the notion that the United States should be worried about China as a geopolitical competitor, prompting criticism from some congressional Republicans who argued that Biden is underestimating the world’s second-largest economy.
At a campaign stop in Iowa City, Biden pointed to his years serving as vice president and as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, telling the crowd that there’s not a “single solitary” world leader who would trade the problems the United States faces for those confronting China.I was just at a manufacturing plant that is being threatened by China’s corrupt trade practices. Not to mention the national security threats they pose. Joe is plain wrong. China is absolutely a threat.
He argued that Beijing has its hands full dealing with its own domestic and regional problems, such as tensions in the South China Sea — which Biden called the “China Sea” — and the “mountains ... in the west.” It was not clear to what mountains or issue Biden was referring. During the 2012 campaign, Romney had famously described Russia as America’s “number-one geopolitical foe,” but he has also argued that China is among the countries that typically “stand up with the world’s worst actors.”“I was just at a manufacturing plant that is being threatened by China’s corrupt trade practices,” Byrne said in a tweet. “Not to mention the national security threats they pose. Joe is plain wrong. China is absolutely a threat.
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