Op-ed by Vice President Biden in The New York Times: China’s Rise Isn’t Our Demise

by Gary Kopycinski on September 8, 2011

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Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 8, 2011. The full text of the op-ed by Vice President Biden is printed below. The piece, published in today’s New York Times, can be read online HERE.

China’s Rise Isn’t Our Demise
The New York Times
September 8, 2011
By JOSEPH R. BIDEN Jr.

I FIRST visited China in 1979, a few months after our countries normalized relations. China was just beginning to remake its economy, and I was in the…