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Latest Fact-Checks In China

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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 21, 2026 remarks:
In artificial intelligence, “We're leading China by a lot.”
Half-True
By Loreben Tuquero • January 29, 2026
Jared Polis
Jared Polis
stated on May 15, 2024 an X post:
Tariffs are a “direct, regressive tax on Americans” and President Joe Biden’s new tariffs on Chinese goods will “hit every family.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • May 17, 2024
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on December 13, 2023 a town hall in Londonderry, New Hampshire:
Under the Trump administration's trade deal, “China's only fulfilled one-third of the promises of agricultural products that they were supposed to buy from our farmers.”
Half-True
By Grace Abels, Louis Jacobson • December 19, 2023
Vivek Ramaswamy
Vivek Ramaswamy
stated on November 8, 2023 Republican primary debate:
An exemption in a new Florida law “allowed Chinese nationals to buy land within a 20-mile radius of a military base, lobbied for by one of (Gov. Ron DeSantis’) donors.”
Half-True
By Samantha Putterman • November 15, 2023
Team PAC
Team PAC
stated on February 7, 2022 an ad:
Eric Schmitt “sponsored a bill to spend $480 million of your tax dollars” on cargo hub for airlines "owned by China's Communist Party” and "voted to let China buy up Missouri farmland."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • February 9, 2022
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
stated on March 18, 2021 a House hearing:
The Democratic clean energy plan is pro-China, because "90% of the solar panels, 80% of the wind machines, 90% of the rare earth minerals … are in Asia or in China.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • March 29, 2021
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang
stated on December 20, 2019 a Democratic presidential primary debate:
"They banned face masks in Hong Kong. Why? Because they have AI technology that now is using facial recognition to identify protesters if they so much as do anything on the street, so they can follow up with them and detain them later."
Half-True
By Bill McCarthy • December 20, 2019
Anthony Scaramucci
Anthony Scaramucci
stated on May 11, 2019 an interview:
China’s developing country status in the World Trade Organization "means they can tariff and embargo."
Half-True
By John Kruzel • May 15, 2019
One Wisconsin Now
One Wisconsin Now
stated on July 28, 2017 a blog post:
Says Scott Walker "wants state taxpayers to dole out up to $250 million annually in incentives" to Foxconn "to lure a manufacturing plant to Wisconsin that he claims will generate $181 million in tax revenue."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • August 2, 2017
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 26, 2017 a tweet:
"Foxconn is bringing 13,000 high-tech jobs to Wisconsin."  
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • July 27, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 17, 2017 an interview with Fox News:
With North Korea, "nobody has ever seen such a positive response on our behalf from China."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • April 19, 2017
Randy Forbes
Randy Forbes
stated on April 21, 2016 a radio interview.:
China is "going to have twice the number of submarines we have in just over a decade."
Half-True
By Sean Gorman • May 2, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2016 an interview with the New York Times:
China is "in the South China Sea and (building) a military fortress the likes of which perhaps the world has not seen."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • April 4, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 27, 2016 an interview with the New York Times:
"We’ve rebuilt China."
Half-True
By Linda Qiu • April 4, 2016
Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson
stated on January 22, 2016 a campaign email:
Says Barack Obama's administration has admitted that money from its Iran nuclear deal "would go directly to terrorism."
Half-True
By Tom Kertscher • January 29, 2016
Mark Warner
Mark Warner
stated on December 16, 2013 an interview.:
"The largest enterprise in the world is the federal government of the United States of America"
Half-True
By Nancy Madsen • January 24, 2014
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
stated on October 24, 2012 in a TV ad:
"We borrow $4 billion every single day, much of it from China."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • October 30, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on September 13, 2012 in a TV ad:
 "Seven times Obama could have stopped China's cheating. Seven times, he refused."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • September 19, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on April 13, 2012 a speech at Port of Tampa:
"We've brought trade cases against China at nearly twice the rate as the last administration."
Half-True
By Becky Bowers • April 18, 2012
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on July 26, 2011 a speech at Dartmouth College.:
China is or soon will be "the largest English-speaking nation" in the world.
Half-True
By John Gregg • August 19, 2011