{"id":1353713,"date":"2022-03-01T22:37:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T03:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1353713"},"modified":"2022-03-01T22:37:47","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T03:37:47","slug":"state-of-the-union-joe-biden-makes-12-putin-references-mentions-china-only-3-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-of-the-union-joe-biden-makes-12-putin-references-mentions-china-only-3-times\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Union: Joe Biden Makes 12 Putin References, Mentions China only 3 Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstate-of-the-union-joe-biden-makes-12-putin-references-mentions-china-only-3-times%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1353713&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1238864042-640x335-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden spent a significant amount of time during Tuesday\u2019s State of the Union address discussing the ongoing Russian military assault on Ukraine, mentioning Russian strongman Vladimir Putin 12 times and urging struggling Americans to \u201cdraw inspiration from the iron will of the Ukrainian people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notably absent, in contrast, from his remarks was the growing geopolitical threat posed to the United States by China. Biden mentioned China three times, all in the context of economic competition. Unlike the reported human rights abuses by Russia in Ukraine, the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people of East Turkistan was entirely absent from the State of the Union, as were abuses against Tibetans, Christians, Falun Gong practitioners, and the extensive abuses against pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Breitbart News tallied 12 references to Putin in prepared remarks of the State of the Union and two mentions of China in the text. Biden added a third reference to China in the speech as delivered on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Biden opened his speech by spending about ten minutes on the war in Ukraine, claiming that Putin had \u201cmet a wall of strength he never imagined\u201d in Ukraine upon expanding his war outside of the troubled Donbas region, where Russian-backed forces have been at war with the country since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin\u2019s latest attack on Ukraine was premeditated and unprovoked. He rejected repeated efforts at diplomacy. He thought the West and NATO wouldn\u2019t respond. And he thought he could divide us at home. Putin was wrong. We were ready,\u201d Biden claimed, taking credit for \u201cbuilding a coalition of other freedom-loving nations from Europe and the Americas to Asia and Africa to confront Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis is a real test. It\u2019s going to take time. So let us continue to draw inspiration from the iron will of the Ukrainian people,\u201d Biden urged.<\/p>\n<p>Biden insisted that, by attacking the entirety of the Ukrainian sovereign territory, Putin had become \u201cisolated from the world more than ever\u201d and took personal credit for crafting a unified response to Russia\u2019s aggression against the country. Biden\u2019s claims omitted several key actions by his administration that preceded Putin\u2019s decision to attack: lifting sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, which would have greatly expanded the Russian natural gas industry\u2019s access to Europe at Ukraine\u2019s expense; claiming the United States would not protect Ukraine if Putin engaged in a \u201cminor incursion\u201d there; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/07\/21\/biden-again-snubs-ukrainian-president-no-july-meeting\/\">repeatedly<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/21\/joe-biden-again-chooses-putin-over-zelensky-seeks-russia-meeting-after-ignoring-invite-to-kyiv\/\">sidelining<\/a> Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, ignoring multiple invitations to meet as Zelensky nervously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/16\/ukraines-zelensky-torches-weak-biden-e-u-policy-sanctions-invasion-wont-matter\/\">warned<\/a> in the press that lifting sanctions would lead to an invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Biden quoted Zelensky\u2019s speech to the European Union this week in his address.<\/p>\n<p>Biden did not explain in detail the relevance of the Ukraine conflict to the average America. His minimal comments on China, however, did address manufacturing, the greater job market, and future competition with the country\u2019s greatest rival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will buy American to make sure everything from the deck of an aircraft carrier to the steel on highway guardrails are made in America,\u201d Biden promised. \u201cBut to compete for the best jobs of the future, we also need to level the playing field with China and other competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why it is so important to pass the Bipartisan Innovation Act sitting in Congress that will make record investments in emerging technologies and American manufacturing,\u201d Biden asserted, claiming the bill, if passed, would entice corporations to choose to build factories in America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe used to invest almost two percent of our GDP in research and development. We don\u2019t now. Can\u2019t. China is,\u201d Biden claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Biden then introduced guest Pat Gelsinger, the CEO of Intel, a company that relies heavily on business with China and sponsored the 2022 Beijing Olympics, widely condemned as an attempt by the Communist Party to legitimize itself amid the Uyghur genocide. In December, Intel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/23\/genocide-olympics-sponsor-intel-apologizes-to-china-for-opposing-slavery\/\">apologized<\/a> for having issued a statement urging Chinese suppliers to avoid using Uyghur slave labor in an attempt to abide by the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Congress passed last year.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the speech, Biden also claimed that the Bipartisal Infrastruction Law passed last year would \u201ctransform America and put us on a path to win the economic competition of the 21st Century that we face with the rest of the world \u2014 particularly with China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I\u2019ve told [Chinese dictator] Xi Jinping, it is never a good bet to bet against the American people,\u201d Biden claimed. \u201cWe\u2019ll create good jobs for millions of Americans, modernizing roads, airports, ports, and waterways all across America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1646222468875000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1__ppp1QWv9eqrKmuj9YvV\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1646222468875000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3pB323zxHDBfaVfWisSYER\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden spent a significant amount of time during Tuesday\u2019s State of the Union address discussing the ongoing Russian military assault on Ukraine, mentioning Russian strongman Vladimir Putin 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}