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Mike Pence
stated on August 18, 2023 in 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.”

By Amy Sherman • August 22, 2023

Joe Biden
stated on May 21, 2023 in 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."

By Louis Jacobson • May 26, 2023

Nicholas Langworthy
stated on February 10, 2023 in 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.

By Conor Amendola, Mary McNaughton • March 9, 2023

Mike Gibbons
stated on April 7, 2022 in 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."

By Tom Kertscher • April 22, 2022

Don Huffines
stated on February 12, 2022 in an ad:

“Under Greg Abbott’s leadership, Texas is putting taxpayer dollars into Chinese companies.”

By Tom Kertscher • February 24, 2022

John James
stated on August 26, 2020 in 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."

By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on June 4, 2020 in a Facebook post:

"China has been stealing our manufacturing, costing Wisconsin almost 90,000 jobs."

By Lawrence Andrea • July 2, 2020

Viral image
stated on April 16, 2020 in 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.”

By Madison Czopek • April 23, 2020

Charlie Kirk
stated on April 3, 2020 in a tweet:

“The Chinese Communist Party is using Zoom as a way to spy on our citizens.”

By Bill McCarthy • April 7, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on March 27, 2020 in 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.”

By Jon Greenberg • April 3, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2020 in 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.”

By Miriam Valverde • March 27, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on September 9, 2019 in a rally in Fayetteville, N.C.:

China has "had now the worst year in 57 years."

By Bill McCarthy • September 10, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on April 27, 2019 in a rally:

"We have been losing to China for many years, $500 billion a year.

By D.L. Davis • April 30, 2019

Viral image
stated on February 6, 2019 in 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"

By Samantha Putterman • February 15, 2019

Matt Flynn
stated on April 12, 2018 in a TV interview:

Says Foxconn "is under investigation in mainland China for securities fraud, environmental fraud and labor fraud."

By Ahmed Elbenni • July 31, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on March 23, 2018 in in a news conference:

"Last year we lost $500 billion on trade with China."

By John Kruzel • March 28, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 in 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.

By Lauren Carroll • September 27, 2016

Thomas Perez
stated on June 18, 2016 in an interview.:

"Go look at a Trump product. They’re all made in China."

By Sean Gorman • June 27, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2016 in 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."

By Jon Greenberg • March 30, 2016

Carly Fiorina
stated on December 17, 2015 in 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."

By Louis Jacobson • January 7, 2016

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