(It's not part of my speech, but I promise you, you're all going to be reporting over the next six to eight months how China and the rest of the world is racing ahead of us in the investments they have in the future.)
拜登稱,美國過去投資比重佔國內生產總值(GDP)2.7%,但現在只有0.7%。「當我們投資時我們是世界領袖,我不明白為甚麼我們搞不清這一點。」(When we were investing it we were the leader in the world. I don't know why we don't get this.)
(One of the only few major economies in the world whose public investment in research and development has declined as a percentage of GDP in the last 25 years, declined! The United States of America! That led the world!)
(Do you think China is waiting around to invest in this digital infrastructure or in research and development? I promise you they are not waiting. But they're counting on American democracy to be too slow, too limited, and too divided to keep pace... We can't afford to prove them right.)