Vice President Biden has retracted his offensive statements that appeared to support China's one-child policy earlier today. This statement, made on the same China trip, is not offensive, it's just embarrassing and ridiculous.
"And so language, the ability not only to master the ability to put your ideas into words succinctly on a platform to communicate ideas to your own people, it is even more impressive when you have the capacity to do that and communicate your ideas, especially as future business and political and moral leaders of the world in the language of the people to whom you are speaking."