{"id":25592,"date":"2012-02-18T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=25592 "},"modified":"2012-02-18T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T10:29:00","slug":"25592-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=25592","title":{"rendered":"China\\’s Human Rights Record at Issue in US Presidential Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama’s campaign sparred on Thursday over whether the White House is too weak on China, a hot topic that is gaining prominence ahead of November’s U.S. election.<\/span><\/p>

In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Romney accused Obama of “almost begging” Beijing to buy U.S. debt. His comments were timed to coincide with the visit of China’s leader-in-waiting, Xi Jinping, who held talks with Obama at the White House this week.<\/span><\/p>

Obama’s re-election team in Chicago shot back swiftly at Romney, accusing him of changing positions on China for political gain.<\/span><\/p>

U.S. voters are concerned about the loss of manufacturing jobs in states such as Ohio, an electoral battleground in the presidential election.<\/span><\/p>

Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who faces a growing threat from former Senator Rick Santorum in the race for the Republican nomination to challenge Obama in November, called Xi’s meetings with U.S. leaders “empty pomp and ceremony.”<\/span><\/p>

“President Obama came into office as a near supplicant to Beijing, almost begging it to continue buying American debt so as to <\/span>finance<\/span><\/a> his profligate spending here at home,” Romney wrote in the opinion piece.<\/span><\/p>

Bonnie Glaser, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Romney’s attack during a foreign leader’s visit was unusual but not unexpected.<\/span><\/p>

“I just can’t recall there being such a targeted attack on a president’s China policy during a leader’s visit,” she said. “It probably doesn’t surprise (China’s leaders), although they’re not happy to see it.”<\/span><\/p>

Zeroing in on one topic that galls American voters about China, Romney said Obama was not forceful in pressing Beijing over human rights.<\/span><\/p>

“His administration demurred from raising issues of human rights for fear it would compromise agreement on the global economic crisis or even ‘the global climate-change crisis.’ Such weakness has only encouraged Chinese assertiveness and made our allies question our staying power in East Asia,” Romney wrote.<\/span><\/p>

Obama met with Xi, China’s current vice president, in the White House Oval Office on Tuesday, raising China’s human rights record and encouraging Beijing to play by global economic rules.<\/span><\/p>

Beating up on China is an easy way for candidates to score political points, and Obama’s campaign, which was expecting Romney’s attack, called him a flip-flopper – a charge both Democrats and Romney’s Republican rivals have sought to exploit in the former governor’s policy resume.<\/span><\/p>Continue reading <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>original article<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span> 

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<div>Republican Party nominee hopeful Romney called out the Obama administration as not being forceful enough on pressing the issue with China. &nbsp;Romney has also stated "We must also forthrightly confront the fact that the Chinese government continues to deny its people basic political freedoms and human rights."<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}