Joe Biden through Asian eyes


Simple choice: Sanders (left) said that his supporters can help get Biden elected into the White House or ‘choose to sit it out and allow the most dangerous president in modern American history to get reelected’. — AP

FORMER Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders endorsed Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on Monday, encouraging his progressive supporters to rally behind the presumptive Democratic nominee in an urgent bid to defeat President Donald Trump.It’s time to cast an Asian eye on Biden. Here is what we know.



No stranger to Asia

As a young senator from Delaware – he served in that Chamber from 1973 until 2009 – he was a long-time member and, later, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. One of his earliest trysts with Asia came in 1979, when he travelled to China and was among a bunch of people received by Deng Xiaoping.

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