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Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on August 18, 2023 comments at a conference
“After China sent a balloon over strategic sites in the United States … President Biden literally sent the secretary of state hat in hand to go kowtow and ask for a meeting.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • August 22, 2023
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 21, 2023 a press conference in Hiroshima, Japan
Said he was “able to convince India, Australia, Japan, and the United States to form an organization called the Quad to maintain stability in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • May 26, 2023
Nicholas Langworthy
Nicholas Langworthy
stated on February 10, 2023 a tweet
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm met "with the radical green energy group behind the gas stove ban," which "has ties to the" Chinese Communist Party.
Mostly False
By Conor Amendola, Mary McNaughton • March 9, 2023
Mike Gibbons
Mike Gibbons
stated on April 7, 2022 an ad
"As Ohio treasurer, Josh Mandel loaned your money to Chinese business interests, and Mandel opposed a bill holding Communist China accountable when they cheated and stole American jobs."
Mostly False
April 22, 2022
Don Huffines
Don Huffines
stated on February 12, 2022 an ad
“Under Greg Abbott’s leadership, Texas is putting taxpayer dollars into Chinese companies.”
Mostly False
February 24, 2022
John James
John James
stated on August 26, 2020 a campaign ad
Says Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., is "known for doing nothing. … (Peters) skipped 84% of small business hearings (and) skipped 89% of hearings on China."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on June 4, 2020 a Facebook post
"China has been stealing our manufacturing, costing Wisconsin almost 90,000 jobs."
Mostly False
By Lawrence Andrea • July 2, 2020
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 16, 2020 a Facebook post
“Pick up a product. Look at the barcode. If the first 3 numbers are 690 or 691 or 692, the product was made in China.”
Mostly False
By Madison Czopek • April 23, 2020
Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk
stated on April 3, 2020 a tweet
“The Chinese Communist Party is using Zoom as a way to spy on our citizens.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • April 7, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 27, 2020 a virtual town hall on CNN
“There was no effort” to get American experts into China after it announced the coronavirus, and “we had one person in-country (and Trump) pulled him out of the country.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 3, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2020 a Hannity show interview
Speaking of his restriction on travel from China, “I had (Joe) Biden calling me xenophobic. … He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 27, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 9, 2019 a rally in Fayetteville, N.C.
China has "had now the worst year in 57 years."
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • September 10, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2019 a rally
"We have been losing to China for many years, $500 billion a year.
Mostly False
By D.L. Davis • April 30, 2019
Viral image
Viral image
stated on February 6, 2019 a Facebook post
Chinese workers made "90,000 banners" for Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign and the president chose to hire "Chinese workers instead of American workers"
Mostly False
By Samantha Putterman • February 15, 2019
Matt Flynn
Matt Flynn
stated on April 12, 2018 a TV interview
Says Foxconn "is under investigation in mainland China for securities fraud, environmental fraud and labor fraud."
Mostly False
By Ahmed Elbenni • July 31, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 23, 2018 in a news conference
"Last year we lost $500 billion on trade with China."
Mostly False
By John Kruzel • March 28, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 a presidential debate
"I did not — I did not — I do not say that. I do not say that" climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese.
Mostly False
By Lauren Carroll • September 27, 2016
Thomas Perez
Thomas Perez
stated on June 18, 2016 an interview.
"Go look at a Trump product. They’re all made in China."
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • June 27, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2016 an interview with the New York Times
"There’s a tremendous tax that we pay when we (American businesses) go into China, whereas when China sells to us there’s no tax."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 30, 2016
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on December 17, 2015 a column posted on Medium
"When we held recent economic dialogues with China, we agreed on over 100 different things  —  including wildlife trafficking and volcano research. None of these 100-plus points of agreement addressed cybersecurity."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • January 7, 2016
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