DATA: Black Americans Disproportionately Hit by Joe Biden’s Outsourcing of US Jobs to China

As a United States Senator and the chief architect of the Obama Administration’s Chinese foreign policy, former Vice President Joe Biden facilitated the offshoring of U.S. manufacturing jobs to China – a move that disproportionately disadvantaged black working-class Americans.

The Democratic Presidential candidate made his first visit to China in April of 1979 as part of a US Congressional Delegation.

Not long after, Senator Biden voted to grant China permanent normal trade relation (PTNR) status in 2000 and lobbied for China’s inclusion into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001.

Reflecting on the trip at the opening session of the 2011 US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, Biden said: “As a young member of a Foreign Relations Committee, I wrote and I said and I believed then what I believe now: That a rising China is a positive development, not only for China, but for America and the world writ large.”