In new ad, Obama challenges Romney on China trade
Source: AP-Excite
By KEN THOMAS
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is challenging Mitt Romney's promises to crack down on China's trading practices, saying in an ad released Saturday that the Republican candidate profited by allowing China to strip away U.S. jobs.
Obama's ad turns again to a recent Washington Post report that several businesses backed by Romney's former private equity firm moved American jobs to China and India to cut costs. In a parting shot, a narrator says Romney is "not the solution. He's the problem."
The ad follows Obama's two-day bus tour in Ohio and Pennsylvania, where the president announced plans to file a trade complaint against China at the World Trade Organization for unfairly imposing duties on the exports of U.S.-produced automobiles. Ohio is home to several auto plants and tens of thousands of workers directly employed by the auto industry.
China remains a flashpoint in the presidential campaign.
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President Barack Obama speaks at Dobbins Elementary School in Poland, Ohio, Friday, July 6, 2012. Obama is on a two-day bus trip through Ohio and Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
AnotherMcIntosh
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Franker65
(299 posts)No real surprise that this issue has come up as a flashpoint. And a good idea to file a complaint on those unfair duties imposed by China. In general statistics show China's trading practices are held in doubt. This move to complain and exposing Romney's business practices seems to be a good strategy by Obama.