Biden Warns China will ‘Eat Our Lunch’ on Infrastructure Spending

Biden: US President Joe Biden has warned that China will “eat our lunch” if America doesn’t “step up” its infrastructure spending.

However, Mr. Biden was speaking on Thursday with a group of senators about the need to upgrade infrastructure in the United States. His warning comes the day after his first phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Moreover, on the call, Mr. Xi took a hard line on human rights saying a confrontation would be a disaster for both countries. Mr. Biden made the comments after meeting with members of the Environment and Public works committee.

On the other hand, if we don’t get moving, they are going to eat our lunch, President told the senators. However, they are investing billions of dollars dealing with a whole range of issues that relate to transportation.

The territory and a wide selection of other things, we just have to step up. During the operation, Mr. Biden suggests spending $2tn over four years to create jobs and invest in clean energy infrastructure. A generally cited American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) report card from 2017 gave the country’s infrastructure a grade of “D+”. The ASCE estimated that the total “infrastructure gap” needed $2tn by 2025 to fix.

The world Economic Forum’s 2019 Global determination report ranked the US 13th in a board measure of infrastructure quality, down from fifth place in 2002. The territory and a wide selection of other things, we just have to step up. 

Human Rights and Diplomacy:

President Biden also takeover several other points of friction with the Chinese President during his call. The territory and a wide selection of other things, we just have to step up. During the operation, Mr. Biden suggests spending $2tn over four years to create jobs and invest in clean energy infrastructure.

Moreover, he also takes up China’s progressively assertive posture toward Taiwan and the country’s lack of transparency over Covid-19, said White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki.

Generally, Mr. Xi maintained a hard line on Hong Kong, Xinjiang, and Taiwan, calling them matters of “sovereignty and territorial integrity”. He told Mr. Biden confrontation would be a “disaster” and the two sides should re-establish the means to avoid misjudgments, China’s foreign ministry said.