[2006alum]

Notable that during a debate Biden was pretty forceful about not trusting China and wanting to get more American observers on ground there. I don't recall his specific remarks but I was a bit struck by them because I thought that China was doing a pretty admirable job at the time fighting this while we still had our thumbs up our asses.

Indeed:

Joe Biden: (21:29)

If I may respond. That's why I insisted, the moment this broke out, that we should insist on having our experts in China, in China to see what was happening, and make it clear to China there'd be consequences if we did not have that access. We have to lead the world. We should be the ones doing what we did during the Ebola crisis, bringing the whole world together and saying, "This is what we must do." We have to have a common plan. All nations are affected the same way by this virus depending on exposure. And so this is, we need world leadership. We need international leadership. We need someone who knows how to bring the world together and insist on fundamental change in the way in which we're approaching this.

[2006alum]

Notable that during a debate Biden was pretty forceful about not trusting China and wanting to get more American observers on ground there. I don't recall his specific remarks but I was a bit struck by them because I thought that China was doing a pretty admirable job at the time fighting this while we still had our thumbs up our asses.

Indeed:

Joe Biden: (21:29)

If I may respond. That's why I insisted, the moment this broke out, that we should insist on having our experts in China, in China to see what was happening, and make it clear to China there'd be consequences if we did not have that access. We have to lead the world. We should be the ones doing what we did during the Ebola crisis, bringing the whole world together and saying, "This is what we must do." We have to have a common plan. All nations are affected the same way by this virus depending on exposure. And so this is, we need world leadership. We need international leadership. We need someone who knows how to bring the world together and insist on fundamental change in the way in which we're approaching this.