Joe Biden wasn't praising or excusing China's one-child policy, he was criticizing it, the Obama White House is insisting.
Caroline May of the Daily Caller has the story:
In the wake of an onslaught of criticism for Vice President Joe Biden’s comments in China about “not second guessing” the country’s one-child policy, the Obama administration has issued a statement of clarification.
“The Obama Administration strongly opposes all aspects of China’s coercive birth limitation policies, including forced abortion and sterilization,” Biden’s spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff told The Daily Caller in an email. “The Vice President believes such practices are repugnant.”
Barkoff explained that Biden was attempting to critique the restrictive system with his comments.
“He also pointed out, in China, that the policy is, as a practical matter, unsustainable,” Barkoff added. “He was arguing against the One Child Policy to a Chinese audience. ”
What say you? Does the explanation pass the smell test? If not, does it even matter given how the mainstream media are largely ignoring the matter anyway?
