CIVIL RIGHTS/FOREIGN POLICY/JOE BIDEN: “Look, we should not make our policy based on who we get to sell weapons to. What — I mean, what a foreign policy. I mean, it makes no sense to me. It makes no sense.
Look — look what’s happened in China now. They have a million Uighurs, Muslims, in re-education camps out in the west. Hong Kong, they’re shooting people in the streets, violating every agreement they made when Hong Kong rejoined China. Look what’s happening in Shanghai. We’re silent. We’re silent and wonder why the rest of the world thinks that we’re not going to stand up…
This is starting to fall apart. We have to lead the world, and we have to lead it by our example and making it clear that human rights and civil rights and civil liberties, they matter to us. I don’t give a damn whether you buy all our arms. It’s a mistake.”
-Joe Biden, “Former VP and Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Speaks at a Town Hall,” cnn.com, Nov. 11, 2019