The Chinese New Year in 1979 was January 28, and the smell of honey and oil was everywhere in Beijing.
The chief designer boarded a plane for the United States on that day, having previously criticized Air China’s airplane meal, a loaf of bread.
Take a bite, drop two bites.
This time the stewardess served him dumplings, and the chief designer was pleased. It was the first time he had ever set foot on American soil, but he was an old friend of President Carter’s, and the two men left a lot of jingoism. Before the formal meeting, Carter said that he had spent time in Tsingtao as a U.S. Army submarine officer in April 1949, and the chief designer smiled slightly.
Our troops had surrounded that city by then.
After old friends met, the war of self-defense against Vietnam broke out and was over in a month. That month the Boston Symphony Orchestra visited China, conducted by a Chinese-born Japanese, Seiji Ozawa. The famous church in Ningbo, the Centennial Hall, which had been closed for more than a decade because of the Shoah, was also reopened.
In April of that year, the first U.S. congressional delegation to China included 37-year-old Senator Joe Biden of Delaware.
The surname Biden is believed to date back to Walter de Button, a Normandy button-maker.
In the 40 years since 1979, Biden has traveled to 60 countries and met with nearly 150 leaders – including nine Israeli prime ministers, six Russian leaders, five German prime ministers and four generations of Chinese leaders.
In 1979, he was a member of the Congressional Intelligence Committee, and since the leaders had made friends with the chief architect, Biden did not meet.
Can we build two intelligence stations in China to observe the Soviets?
One.
The last year of the twentieth century was an unpleasant one between China and the United States. Moving into the new century, it was indeed a different landscape. U.S. Trade Representative Zoellick recalls that China coined a new Chinese term in order to explain the benefits of WTO membership to the common people.
Win-win.
August 2001. A minibus slowly pulls up in front of a coastal compound in Beidaihe. Wearing a dark suit, and Luo Yonghao hairstyle almost Biden walked into the courtyard, this is his second visit to China.
A month ago, all members of the WTO agreed on China’s accession to the WTO.
U.S. Congressional Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Biden is 59 years old, in the Chinese people say it is the year of the ear, that is, good words and bad words can be heard. A year ago at this time, Wallace is here and the elderly to talk about laughing. Biden spoke to the elder.
The United States welcomes the rise of a prosperous, integrated China, because we expect it to be a rule-abiding China.
He was a strong supporter of pushing China to join the WTO and whether to grant most-favored-nation status. At that time, in the White House and on Capitol Hill, George W. Bush’s most trusted aide was Zoellick. It was believed that China, the “stakeholder”, would make a series of profound changes. 19 years later, what Biden said here was treated like a pigtail by the king.
The most interesting part of the trip wasn’t Beidaihe.
In the village of Yanzikou, in Beijing’s Changping District’s Thirteen Lings town, there is a Roman Catholic church with a crucifix on top, where the first priest during the Yongzheng period was said to be Sunu, the fourth grandson of Nurhachi, and where most of the villagers have been Catholic ever since.
Biden, who was born into an Irish family and was a devout Catholic, went to this church. The villagers of Sununu knew that a big man was coming, and early Friday morning, everyone gathered and waited for the western view.
When Biden arrived, he knelt down before Father Chang Depp and asked him about his ministry in China and prayed for redemption. After receiving Holy Communion, Biden dropped three folded 100 yuan RMBs into the collection box.
The children of Yanzikou village loved the old white-haired gentleman and gathered around him laughing with joy, and Biden squatted down in front of the two children, Gao Shan and Yan Song Lu, and bought them two popsicles, saying.
One of you can be President and the other can be Prime Minister.
Before the two power kids in the Changping constituency had recovered, old Mr. Biden was gone, jerking cats around the village, visiting villagers’ homes, and even watching a little TV.
Biden also went to Shanghai that year. The Shanghai leader, who was always very foreign, greeted Biden in perfect English and hardly relied on an interpreter, and the two got along well.
In Shanghai, Biden again made his views clear in an interview.
China is not the enemy.
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When the US financial crisis hit in 2008, China was hosting the Olympics. Two years later, China’s GDP surpassed Japan’s. As soon as Obama took office, he began pushing for a return to Asia.
In 2011, Vice President Biden visited China for the third time, and before he left, he wrote an article in the New York Times to cool down the China threat theory. Biden spent five days in China this time, two in Beijing and three in Chengdu.
In Beijing, Biden first went to the Olympic Stadium to watch a U.S.-China basketball rivalry game, and then took his granddaughter and her party of five to Yaoji Fried Liver for a taste of authentic old Beijing. The waiters in the shop stuck their heads out of the kitchen delivery window to look at the tall American.
The American probably couldn’t resist the fried liver and brine, but they ordered five bowls of noodles with mixed sauce, three plates of small dishes, a cage of buns and five bottles of Coke, for a total of 79 yuan. As Biden politely said he was sorry for the trouble, he pulled a hundred dollar bill out of his bag.
The extra $21 counts as a tip.
Where is this going to get us? Yaoji fried liver after the launch of the “vice presidential set meal”, a steady stream of customers, some even drove specially from Inner Mongolia to try the fresh.
After Biden won the election, reporters interviewed Yaoji’s boss. He said that Biden is an approachable and very kind old man.
Finally, the boss also issued an invitation to Biden, hoping he would come to China, can come back to the restaurant. The “vice presidential package” is now being upgraded to a “presidential package”.
The leader Biden came to see was the same age as him. He said, “You look younger than me.
Because your office is much bigger than mine.
After leaving Beijing, Biden went to Chengdu. For four years in a row, Chengdu has been the most popular place for American businessmen to invest, and Secretary Li, who created this situation, moved to live in Qincheng prison a few years later.
In Chengdu, Biden visited the factories of Intel and Dell, Dujiangyan, the ruins of Wenchuan, and he also paid a special visit to Qingchengshan Senior High School, accompanied by the leader of the visit.
The new school, built after the Wenchuan earthquake, is partly funded by the U.S. After the May 12 earthquake, Sichuan had received a lot of outside aid, not only other provinces and cities on the mainland, but also Japan, Russia, and the United States on the other side of the ocean.
In the middle school playground, schoolgirls surrounded the old man, watched him shoot a basket, and then jumped up to give him a round of applause. Then both the leader and Biden signed the basketball.
The two men who will determine the future course of U.S.-China relations also watched Sichuan opera together and drank Kung Fu Gai Bowl tea, which is unique to Sichuan.
During his speech at Sichuan University, Biden said to reassure China, America’s largest creditor, that the U.S. has good credit and will never go back on its word. He assured the audience that the United States would reform export trade controls and export more technology and goods to China, but wanted China to protect its intellectual property rights and reiterated that China’s rise was positive for the United States and the world.
Hoenan counted 12 times in Biden’s speeches where he talked about cooperation and eight times where he talked about development. But in his Beijing speech, he also mentioned.
8 disagreements, 6 competitions.
Unlike the sharpness of the original speech at Fudan University, the final questioning session was very gentle. The students of Sichuan University only asked questions about the national debt and the speeches.
The speeches ended with a round of applause.
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Sensitive issues in the East China Sea cooled U.S.-China relations abruptly in 2013. No surprise, but at the end of the year, old friend Biden came back. Hoenan remembers his statement at the time.
The leader’s career was on the rise and he couldn’t be bothered.
The meeting between Biden and the leader lasted late into the night, well beyond the scheduled time. It wasn’t until the next afternoon that Biden was back on the streets of Beijing. He took his granddaughter to the National Palace of Culture and bought two Magnum popsicles. He also went to the Liuxianguan Teahouse and tasted Da Hong Robe and white tea, and bought hawthorn cakes to take back to America.
This is Time Magazine’s best urban retreat in Asia, and the Great Hidden City team even removed the teahouse’s gas cans.
This year’s U.S. election is likely to attract more attention than previous Olympics.
The day the U.S. media announced that Biden won the election, Haonan’s circle of friends a HuaXiang used car market agency sent a circle of friends said today to buy a car uniform cost price.
Don’t ask me why, because his dad and I are peers.
Biden was athletic as a kid and loved football, but couldn’t say he did well academically and had a stutter. He had leadership skills and grew up to be the king of kids. His grandmother had been a senator, and the family had a devout religious faith, at one point wanting to quit school to become a pastor. A man from a commoner class family who stuttered as a child, lost a son in middle age, lost his wife, and had a brain tumor himself, but survived it all.
Until May of this year, about 40 percent of voters thought the 77-year-old man, who is often incoherent and illogical, had Alzheimer’s disease.
That includes 20 percent of Democratic voters.
The Golden Fleece even gave him the nickname Sleepy Joe. Even if he wins, most American voters probably aren’t looking at Biden’s face.
Biden’s running mate, Vice President Harris, began her political career in the heavily Chinese San Francisco area, where she has the gentle Chinese name of He Jinli. Many Chinese netizens also gave Biden a Chinese name, Bay Zhenhua.
In Biden’s political career, he was a moderate who visited China almost every time to ease the atmosphere and promote friendship, and his granddaughter studied Chinese for five full years.
Machiavelli wrote in The Monarchy that the boss is afraid of two things, one of which is that other countries are too powerful.
It is this one thing that Biden fears.
Over the course of the campaign, Biden has begun to harden his stance on China. So far, he hasn’t promised to necessarily remove the tariffs set by the know-it-all king. There is also a tendency to appoint candidates for key positions who are aggressively leading and suppressive toward China.
In 2018, two Biden aides wrote in Foreign Affairs that basic Republican and Democratic policies toward China have gone awry over the years.
It’s an issue Biden has thought about, too.In 2001, he visited China to speak at Fudan University. As his entourage later recalled, he asked the students in the audience a question they had always wanted to ask.
The room was reportedly silent for a moment. After a while, a physics student stood up and replied, Mr. Senator, China will see change. The student then added.
But the direction and pace is up to us, the students of Newton, not you.
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