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Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on October 16, 2012 debate comments:
Says Barack Obama has pension investments that include Chinese firms, and "investments through a Caymans trust."
Mostly True
By Dave Umhoefer • October 17, 2012
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on October 11, 2012 the vice presidential debate:
Says Joe Biden "went to China and said that he sympathized and wouldn't second-guess their one-child policy of forced abortions and sterilizations."
Mostly False
By J.B. Wogan • October 12, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 1, 2012 a campaign ad:
Says Romney invested in a firm that made goods in China that "could have been made here in America."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 9, 2012
Americans For Tax Reform
Americans For Tax Reform
stated on September 28, 2012 a mailer to voters:
The Obama administration’s "green" stimulus program "funneled close to $2 billion dollars to overseas firms," creating thousands of jobs in China.
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • October 1, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 17, 2012 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."
Mostly True
By Molly Moorhead • October 1, 2012
Americans For Tax Reform
Americans For Tax Reform
stated on September 21, 2012 a mailer to voters:
Says Obama sent $450 million to China to build a wind farm in Texas.
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • September 25, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on September 13, 2012 a campaign ad:
"Even today part of Romney’s fortune is invested in China."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • September 20, 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
Anthony Gemma
Anthony Gemma
stated on August 28, 2012 an online debate:
U.S. military uniforms are manufactured in China.
Pants on Fire!
By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 2, 2012
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney
stated on July 18, 2012 a campaign commercial:
Stimulus dollars paid for "windmills from China."
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 23, 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
Restore Our Future
Restore Our Future
stated on January 12, 2012 a television ad:
Says Newt Gingrich "co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • January 12, 2012
Eric Cantor
Eric Cantor
stated on November 14, 2011 a news conference.:
The U.S. economy "is three times as big as China's."
Mostly True
By Sean Gorman • December 5, 2011
Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann
stated on November 9, 2011 a Republican presidential debate in Michigan:
"By 2015, we will be sending so much interest" to China that "we will be paying for the entire People's Liberation Army."
False
By Louis Jacobson • November 10, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on October 31, 2011 an interview on "PBS Newshour":
China is "trying to develop nuclear capability."
Pants on Fire!
By Angie Drobnic Holan • November 2, 2011
Edd Houck
Edd Houck
stated on September 29, 2011 a TV ad.:
"Bryce Reeves chaired a group bankrolled by a New York billionaire who fired hundreds of Virginia workers and sent their jobs to China."
False
By Sean Gorman • October 12, 2011
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
Jon Huntsman
Jon Huntsman
stated on August 2, 2011 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."
Mostly True
By Jake Berry • August 19, 2011
George Allen
George Allen
stated on July 2, 2011 a TV interview.:
"China owns more of our bonds than do Americans."
False
By Sean Gorman • July 8, 2011
Allen West
Allen West
stated on June 2, 2011 an interview:
"China owns about 29% of (the U.S.) debt."
False
By Amy Sherman • June 14, 2011
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