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Asa Hutchinson
Asa Hutchinson
stated on December 11, 2023 in comments at Stand with Crypto Alliance at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire:
China is allowed to do crypto mining in the U.S.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson, Rebecca Catalanello • December 15, 2023
Nikki Haley
Nikki Haley
stated on October 12, 2023 in a town hall in Exeter, N.H.:
China is “the largest developer of neuro-strike weapons, weapons engineered to change the brain activity of military commanders and segments of the population.”
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By Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman • November 1, 2023
Ro Khanna
Ro Khanna
stated on December 12, 2022 in an interview:
The U.S. "trade deficit with China has gone from about $80 billion a year in the 1990s to $400 billion a year.”
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By Tom Kertscher • December 19, 2022
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 24, 2020 in an ad:
“Trump lost a trade war that he started.”
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By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on June 11, 2019 in a campaign speech:
"In the Obama-Biden administration, we got China to cut cyber-theft -- it's gotten significantly worse under this administration."
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By Tom Kertscher • June 14, 2019
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 9, 2018 in in a tweet:
"When a car is sent to the United States from China, there is a Tariff to be paid of 2 1/2%. When a car is sent to China from the United States, there is a Tariff to be paid of 25%."
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By John Kruzel • April 9, 2018
Angus King
Angus King
stated on March 4, 2018 in in an interview:
"China, my understanding is, supplies 4 percent of the steel in the U.S."
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By John Kruzel • March 8, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2017 in a speech:
"We’ve lost 70,000 factories since China joined the World Trade Organization."  
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By Tom Kertscher • April 19, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 20, 2017 in remarks at a Kentucky rally:
"Since China joined — that’s another beauty — the WTO in 2001, the U.S. has lost many more than 60,000 factories."
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By Lauren Carroll • March 24, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2016 in a rally in Columbus, Ohio:
Russia and China are "doing naval exercises together someplace."  
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By Nadia Pflaum • August 4, 2016
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2016 in an interview before a speech in Winston-Salem, NC:
Says he and Bernie Sanders have "very similar" views on trade
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By Will Doran • July 27, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 2, 2016 in an interview in Bow, N.H.:
"Ted Cruz defended a Chinese company that stole an invention from an American inventor."
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By Jonathan Van Fleet • February 7, 2016
Joe Donald
Joe Donald
stated on December 2, 2015 in an interview:
"We lock up close to 2.4 million people in this country. We're locking up more people than China and Russia."
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By Tom Kertscher • December 9, 2015
Kevin Russell
Kevin Russell
stated on October 28, 2015 in an opinion column:
"In almost every other country in the world, artists and musicians are paid when their music is played on the radio. In fact, the only countries besides the U.S. who do not have a radio-performance right are China, Iran and North Korea."
Mostly True
By W. Gardner Selby • December 7, 2015
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 16, 2012 in debate comments:
Says Barack Obama has pension investments that include Chinese firms, and "investments through a Caymans trust."
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By Dave Umhoefer • October 17, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 17, 2012 in a television ad:
Chinese tire imports threatened 1,000 American jobs, so President Obama "stood up to China and protected American workers. Mitt Romney attacked Obama's decision."
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By Molly Moorhead • October 1, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 13, 2012 in a campaign ad:
"Even today part of Romney’s fortune is invested in China."
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By Jon Greenberg • September 20, 2012
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on November 14, 2011 in a news conference.:
The U.S. economy "is three times as big as China's."
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By Sean Gorman • December 5, 2011
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on August 2, 2011 in a campaign appearance in Milford, N.H.:
There are 500 million Internet users "and 80 million bloggers who are driving discussions in China. … So you’ve got a lot of people voicing frustration and discontent."
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By Jake Berry • August 19, 2011
Todd Staples
Todd Staples
stated on December 29, 2010 in an op-ed:
"On average, Americans spend less than 10 percent of their disposable income on food. Compare that to folks in Mexico, who spend 22 percent, China, 28 percent and Russia, 37 percent."
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January 15, 2011