President Biden on Wednesday said the US needs his $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan to compete with China, framing it as part of an ideological competition between Washington and Beijing.
“You think China is waiting around to invest in this digital infrastructure, on research and development?” Biden asked. “I promise you, they are not waiting. But they’re counting on American democracy to be too slow, too limited and too divided to keep pace.”
When asked about China at his first press conference last month, Biden used Cold-War style language to describe what he sees as a competition between “autocracy” and “democracy,” which he repeated when trying to sell the infrastructure plan.
“You’ve heard me say it before: I think this generation is going to be marked by the competition between democracies and autocracies, because the world is changing so rapidly,” Biden said Wednesday. “We have to show the world — and much more importantly, we have to show ourselves — that democracy works.”
Biden announced the plan on March 31st, and China was mentioned in the unveiling of the proposal, known as the American Jobs Plan. A fact sheet put out by the White House described the American Jobs Plan as “an investment in America that will create millions of good jobs, rebuild our country’s infrastructure, and position the United States to out-compete China.”
While the American Jobs Plan is a domestic initiative, Biden has also floated the idea of a global infrastructure project to compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative.
“You think China is waiting around to invest in this digital infrastructure, on research and development?” Biden asked. “I promise you, they are not waiting. But they’re counting on American democracy to be too slow, too limited and too divided to keep pace.”
What they’re counting on is the US spending themselves into oblivion on their war making.
Diluted democracy virtually bankrupt from lax tax on those it should and too much on those it shouldnt to fund this global dreadnaught of 1000 military bases funded by fiat finances could never hope to last forever,eh kiddies?
You still call them Chinese commies. They are more capitalist than you will every be and they are the Chinese borg, you cannot win.
China was lucky during the last 40 or so years in NOT having a Chinese Yeltsin running the country, nor in having advisers from the Ivy league universities from abroad. Observing what had happened in Russia, China decided that it had better retain ownership of public property in it’s own hands.
“But they’re counting on American democracy to be too slow, too limited and too divided to keep pace.”_____ Those are the absolute facts at the present time:
Too Slow: It took my nearby highway 35 years for it to be resurfaced with new asphalt…! China is exactly opposite: Too Fast…!
Too limited: Spending $750 billion plus per year on military limits spending on other plans…! China has no limitation on public work plans…!
Too Divided: Just look at how divided the demoRats and retardiQAns are when a bill is proposed to benefit public… like the virus aid, minimum wage or this Infra Plan…! There is no disagreement in Chinese government policies…!