On NBC’s “Meet The Press” This Morning, Vice President Biden Said That “Standing Up For Freedom” Was The Most Important Priority For The Obama Administration In Relations With China. NBC’S DAVID GREGORY: “What’s more important to this administration, standing up for freedom in china or maintaining a very delicate relationship with this emerging power?” VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN: “Standing up for freedom. Look, I’ve spent more time with the soon-to-be president of China, Vice President Xi, I’ve spent a total of roughly ten days with him, five in China five here. I’ve been alone with him for over 30 hours of meeting, just he and I. Publicly and privately, I have never failed, including when he was hosted at the State Department, to say human rights, human rights is critical to us. As a matter of fact, I tried to explain, I didn’t try, I explained to him why it’s so critical, why Americans as part of our DNA. And I pointed out that almost everybody who came here in the 17^th, 18^th, 19th centuries came avoiding oppression. It’s part of our DNA. And if he didn’t understand that, there was gonna to be very little ability for us to cooperate. So we have not in any way backed off of our commitment to human rights.” (NBC’S “Meet The Press,” 5/6/12)

But In 2009, Secretary Clinton Said Human Rights “Can’t Interfere” With More Pressing Issues That Needed Chinese Cooperation. SEC. CLINTON: “But successive administrations and Chinese governments have been poised back and forth on these issues, and we have to continue to press them. But our pressing on those issues can’t interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis, and the security crisis. We have to have a dialogue that leads to an understanding and cooperation on each of those.” (Secretary Hillary Clinton, Roundtable With Traveling Press, Seoul, South Korea, 2/20/09

And In 2011, Biden Endorsed China’s One Child Policy Which Includes Forced-Sterilization And Abortion. BIDEN: “Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I’m not second-guessing — of one child per family.” (Vice President Biden, Remarks On U.S.-China Relations at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 8/21/11)