拜登：中國缺乏創新

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden used a speech on foreign policy Wednesday to dismiss concerns over China's economic strength.

Speaking to a group of Air Force graduates, Biden acknowledged China is "graduating six to eight times as many scientists and engineers as we have."

But he said: "I challenge you, name me one innovative project, one innovative change, one innovative product that has come out of China."

Biden referenced the 1990s, when he said many people in the U.S. feared a rising Japan would "eat our lunch, that Japan was the future."

He implied China has replaced Japan as the new economic challenger to the U.S., while noting he hopes both China and Japan succeed.

China is widely expected later this decade to overtake the U.S. as the world's biggest economy, in terms of gross domestic product.

But despite decades of rapid growth, China's economy faces huge challenges, including wide income inequality, corruption, and pollution.美國副總統拜登星期三就外交政策發表演講，以打消人們對中國經濟實力的擔憂。

拜登對空軍學院畢業生講話時承認，中國的理工科畢業生人數是美國的六倍到八倍。

拜登說：“我敢說，你們說不出任何一項創新項目、創新變革以及創新產品是來自中國。”

拜登提到上世紀90年代。他說，當時很多美國人擔心崛起的日本會搶走美國的飯碗，擔心未來是日本的。

拜登暗示，中國已經取代日本，在經濟上成爲美國的新挑戰對手，同時他表示希望中國和日本都獲得成功。

人們廣泛預計中國的國內生產總值將在幾年內超越美國，成爲世界第一大經濟體。

儘管中國幾十年來經濟高速發展，中國經濟面臨着嚴重挑戰，包括收入差距巨大、腐敗和污染。