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Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 2, 2016 an interview in Bow, N.H.
"Ted Cruz defended a Chinese company that stole an invention from an American inventor."
Mostly True
By Jonathan Van Fleet • February 7, 2016
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 4, 2016 a town hall in Manchester, N.H.
China is "practicing how to blow up our satellites."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 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
January 29, 2016
Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi
stated on January 13, 2016 an interview on CNN
Until the new Iran deal, China and Russia "have never voted with us at the U.N. on any sanctions on Iran in the past."
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • January 13, 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
Joe Donald
Joe Donald
stated on December 2, 2015 an interview
"We lock up close to 2.4 million people in this country. We're locking up more people than China and Russia."
Mostly True
December 9, 2015
Kevin Russell
Kevin Russell
stated on October 28, 2015 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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 10, 2015 the fourth GOP primary debate.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership "was designed for China to come in, as they always do, through the back door and totally take advantage of everyone."
Pants on Fire!
By Clayton Youngman • November 12, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on November 10, 2015 a debate in Milwaukee, Wis.
"We’re losing now over $500 billion a year in terms of imbalance with China."
Mostly False
By Anna Bruzgulis • November 11, 2015
X posts
X posts
stated on October 4, 2015 tweets
Says Donald Trump’s "Make America Great Again" hats were made in China.
Pants on Fire!
By Katie Sanders • October 7, 2015
Matthew Cooke
Matthew Cooke
stated on December 10, 2014 a Huffington Post column
The United States has "more of our people in prison than Russia, China, and North Korea combined."
Mostly False
By Katie Sanders • December 16, 2014
Mitch McConnell
Mitch McConnell
stated on November 12, 2014 a media availability
The climate-change agreement between the United States and China "requires the Chinese to do nothing at all for 16 years."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 19, 2014
Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping
stated on November 12, 2014 a press conference in Beijing.
"China has made enormous progress in its human rights. That is a fact recognized by all the people in the world."
Mostly False
By Steve Contorno • November 17, 2014
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 17, 2014 multiple blog and video posts
The Bundy Ranch deal is all about Nevada Sen. Harry Reid "using federal violence to take people’s land in his state so he can package it to re-sell it to the Chinese."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • April 24, 2014
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
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on March 14, 2013 a CPAC speech
"The Chinese government provides their people no access to the Internet."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Katie Sanders • March 15, 2013
Terry McAuliffe
Terry McAuliffe
stated on December 5, 2012 a news conference.
Says Virginia economic development officials "decided they didn’t want to bid on" his company's electric automobile plant.
False
By Nancy Madsen • January 24, 2013
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 October 29, 2012 a television ad
Says Barack Obama "sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China" at the cost of American jobs.
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • October 30, 2012
Let Freedom Ring
Let Freedom Ring
stated on October 15, 2012 a Web video
Says GM used taxpayer dollars to prop up operations in China.
False
By Jon Greenberg • October 25, 2012
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