中国留学生要求美国副总统为'不当言论'道歉

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BBC Chinese, May 23, 2013
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... s_biden_china.shtml

Note:
(a) White House's website (Whitehouse.gov) does not have the transcript.
(b) Commencement Speakers Since 1938. University of Pennsylvania, undated
https://secure.[url]www.upenn.edu/secretary/speakers38.html[/url]
("(For transcripts of recent commencement addresses, follow this link to the Almanac website and search "Commencement" and the year of the address you are interested in.)")

* To save you the trouble, here it is:

A Chance to Write a New Chapter; Penn Commencement Address given on Monday, May 13, 2013 by Joseph R. Biden, Jr., the 47th Vice President of the United States. University of Pennsylvania Almanac, May 21, 2013.
http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v59/n33/comm-biden.html

The following two parts--and two parts only--of the speech concern China:

(i) "Today, we’re better positioned than any nation in the world to lead the 21st century. I love to hear people tell me—now to use the vernacular—'China’s going to eat our lunch.' China’s a great nation, and we should hope for the continued expansion, but ladies and gentlemen, their problems are immense, and they lack much of what we have.

"We have the best universities in the world, we have a legal system that is open and fair, we have the most agile venture capitalists in the world, we lead the world in innovation and technology, all for a simple basic reason. Steve Jobs, speaking at Stanford, was asked by a young man “how can I be more like you? How can I become like you?” Steve Jobs famously answered “think different.” 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. And what you’ve learned at this great University and throughout this system is to challenge orthodoxy. That’s why today, our economy is still two and a half times bigger than any other in the world, our workers are three times as productive as any worker in the world, high-tech manufacturing is coming back to the United States and your generation has already joined the ranks of those who are leading the world in innovation and job creation.

"We’re about to enter an era of breathtaking change and progress. We’re on the cusp of innovations that will literally change the world

(ii) "I spent ten days with President Xi, the new president of China, at the request of then-President Hu and President Obama, to establish a personal relationship. Tip O’Neill made famous the expression, 'all politics is local.' Far be it from me to improve upon my friend Tip O’Neill, but I think all politics is personal, including international politics. Ladies and gentlemen, I looked and listened to the questions he had to ask, and the interest he had. And the President asked me, what did I think after ten days, five in China and five here? And I said, he’s a strong, bright man, but he has the look of a man who’s about to take on a job he’s not at all sure is going to end well. I mean that seriously. We are so well-positioned, we are so well-positioned to lead the world in the 21st century, that we have to take advantage of it.