The affirmative task we have now is to actually create a new world order, because the global order is changing again, and the institutions of the world worked so well in the post-World War II era for decades, they need to be strengthened, and some have to be changed.
Biden: The ‘affirmative task’ before us is to ‘create a new world order’
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In a speech at the Export-Import Bank’s annual conference, Vice President Joe Biden said that …
So we have to do what we do best, we have to lead. We have to update the global rules of the road, we have to do it in a way that maximizes benefits for everyone, because obviously, it’s overwhelmingly in our interests.
This is not a zero sum game, it’s overwhelming our interest, that China prosper, that Mongolia prosper, that nations big and large, East and West.
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We have to level the playing field so that companies and workers can compete in the world, that the competition is fair and it’s healthy.
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While this agenda is far from complete, we’ve made significant progress with all of your help. The economy has now added private sector jobs every month, disappointing this month, but they nonetheless added jobs,
Even though we’ve still found that at the time there’s a need for an ambitious affirmative agenda. We strengthened and signed three free trade agreements.
I’m not optimistic out of “naïveté” but because he knows the history of America.
I know I’m referred to in the White House as the White House optimist. I read that all of the time like I’m the new guy. As my grandfather would say, ‘like I just fell off the turnip truck yesterday.
In case you haven’t noticed, I’ve been there longer than any of them and I hope you all haven’t noticed.
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