During the debate romney tries to draw Obama into 'blame-it-on-China'. Doesn't succeed.
An aggressive Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney tried twice to draw President Barack Obama into discussing U.S. policy toward China during the first televised presidential debate on Wednesday, but the incumbent did not rise to the bait. The objective of the debate was to focus on U.S. domestic policy, but Romney seized the opportunity to blame China for America's high unemployment and twin budget and trade deficit problems.
But Obama, who has attacked Romney's former companies for shipping jobs to the world's most populous nation, kept China off the table on Wednesday as his rival pounded the president's policies in the debate.
When the question of creating new jobs to contain unemployment was posed by the debate moderator, Romney bluntly said he will "crack down on China, if and when they cheat," in an apparent reference to accusations that Beijing is manipulating its currency to make its exports more competitive—which could worsen the U.S. trade deficit and hinder American job growth.
.. the Obama administration has launched other trade-related assaults against Beijing. They include seven World Trade Organization (WTO) complaints over "illegal" subsidies and other Chinese practices linked to automobiles, rare-earth minerals, solar panels, wind turbines, poultry, tires, and music. "We've brought more trade cases against China in one term than the previous [George W. Bush] administration did in two," Obama told a crowd in the top battleground state of Ohio. "And every case we've brought that's been decided we won," Obama said.
http://www.rfa.org/english/east-asia-beat/debate-10042012072132.html
romney's credibility is zilch. The debate that deals with foreign policy will be interesting for many reasons - one of which is how to deal with China.
