“We used to invest more in research and development than any country in the world and China was ... number nine. We now are number eight and China is number one.”
What FactCheck.org found
Latest OECD data show government-financed spending on R&D was 0.66% of GDP (2018) for the U.S. and 0.46% for China (2019). The U.S. also leads in total R&D funding, which includes private business and nonprofit spending.
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In short
Joe Biden (President of the United States) made this claim around 18 May 2021. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 May 2021, 7 days later. Its rating was “Not What Data Show”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/05/18/remarks-by-president…
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