拜登曾点名中国没有创新精神,并在2019年Iowa的竞选集会上称「不用担心中国」( 「China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man...they can’t even figure out how to deal with the fact that they have this great division between the China Sea and the mountains in the east, I mean in the west.」)虽然拜登本人可能表现出轻视中国技术的倾向,但上台后可能在国会和智库的推动下对华强硬。