畢業典禮上, Biden說:
“Their problems are immense, and they lack much of what we have… (America has an) open and fair legal (system)…
“You cannot think different in a nation where you cannot breathe free; you cannot think different in a nation where you aren’t able to challenge orthodoxy, because change only comes from challenging orthodoxy.”
關於習近平:
“He’s a strong, bright man, but he has the look of a man who is about to take on a job he’s not at all sure is going to end well. I mean that seriously.”
覺得跟中國實際情況不是很符合的? 不過,中國學生在起草抗議信 it had 343 signees. It reads in part:
Vice President Joe Biden openly demeaned China and Chinese citizens in front of hundreds of Chinese students and their families. As international students from China, we found this part his speech extremely inappropriate and offensive. We demand that he make a public apology to all Chinese students in Penn.