Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., is unaware how the global economy functions.
Biden decided to belittle Chinese industry on Wednesday, saying "I challenge you, name me one innovative project, one innovative change, one innovative product that has come out of China." Biden was delivering his commencement address at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
Biden began his comments on China after a commendation of American ingenuity, boasting that, "Notwithstanding the great recession we inherited, we nonetheless start from a powerful position in the world … within a decade, North America will be the epicenter of energy in the world—not the Arabian peninsula."
He then became a bit nostalgic, saying "I used to give commencement speeches in the nineties and the line some of you will remember, some of you who are older, was that Japan was going to eat our lunch...We also used to be told that China, and it's true, was graduating six to eight times as many scientists and engineers as we have."
But Biden made it clear that he is not impressed by the world’s second largest economy, remarking "And I want Japan to succeed as I do China, but give me a break."