US President Joe Biden once again quoted Mao Zedong, the former leader of the Communist Party of China, in his latest public speech, which aroused the attention of Chinese public opinion.
According to a report by USA Today on May 19, Joe Biden attended the Coast Guard Academy graduation ceremony in New London, Connecticut. This is the first time he attended the graduation ceremony of the military academy and delivered a speech as president. According to the transcript released by the White House, when Joe Biden mentioned female graduates and female commanders, he quoted Mao Zedong’s famous saying that ‘women hold up half the world’.
Joe Biden mentioned in his speech that day that more than one-third of the current graduates are women, and he himself appointed three women as commanders, and this number is increasing every year. “We must ensure that women have the opportunity to succeed and grow throughout their careers.
Joe Biden said that there is a famous Chinese saying that “women hold up half the world”, we use it in different contexts, but “those who are not convinced that at least half of our achievements are represented by women are absolutely stupid.”
In July 2020, Biden, who has not yet entered the White House, was also exposed by the American media, citing the phrase “women hold up half the world.”
American Fox News reported at the time that Joe Biden attended a large-scale digital fundraising event. According to Edward-Isaac Dovere, a special writer for The Atlantic, Biden talked about treating women in the Q&A session. He made such a statement when discussing economic relief issues, “We must now deliver real economic relief to women”, and then he said, “Women hold up half the world.”
According to another source, Fox News amplified the matter on July 14 and put “Biden quoted Mao Zedong’s famous quote” in the headline of the article, which attracted many netizens to read it.
Fox News also specifically introduced the origin of this famous saying, saying that this is a sentence that Mao Zedong said 70 years ago, and this sentence has also become an important declaration to promote equality between men and women.
At the end of the article, it was pointed out that the topic of China has become a key issue in the 2020 US election. Therefore, as soon as the article was published, a large number of supporters of former US President Donald Trump flooded into the message area to criticize Biden, describing him as “Chinese Joe” or “Beijing Biden.”
Regarding Joe Biden’s quotation of Mao Zedong’s famous quote, some mainland Chinese netizens called Biden the “Chinese Spokesperson”, and some netizens said that “This sentence is only suitable for China, and Biden used it wrongly”, and another netizen said, “Is this the only line he knows? I suggest he quote ‘All reactionaries are paper tigers’.”
Source: dwnews