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Statements about China
Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Half-True

Depends on when you start clock

"We've brought trade cases against China at nearly twice the rate as the last administration."

Restore Our Future

Restore Our Future

Pants on Fire!

Distortion after distortion

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."

Eric Cantor

Eric Cantor

Mostly True

Another measure shows a smaller gap

The U.S. economy "is three times as big as China's."

Michele Bachmann

Michele Bachmann

False

Currently, it's less than a quarter

"By 2015, we will be sending so much interest" to China that "we will be paying for the entire People's Liberation Army."

Herman Cain

Herman Cain

Pants on Fire!

They've had it for more than 40 years

China is "trying to develop nuclear capability."

Edd Houck

Edd Houck

False

Flimsy logic based on flimsy research

"Bryce Reeves chaired a group bankrolled by a New York billionaire who fired hundreds of Virginia workers and sent their jobs to China."

Jon Huntsman

Jon Huntsman

Half-True

Details are lost in translation

China is or soon will be "the largest English-speaking nation" in the world.

Jon Huntsman

Jon Huntsman

Mostly True

Millions of bloggers, but more social than political

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."

George Allen

George Allen

False

Cherry picks data

"China owns more of our bonds than do Americans."

Allen West

Allen West

False

U.S. residents and institutions own the majority of U.S. debt

"China owns about 29 percent of (the U.S.) debt.''

Terry McAuliffe

Terry McAuliffe

True

Made in China, held in China

"China now owns $1.1 trillion of our debt, our trade deficit last year with them was a quarter of a trillion dollars."

Randy Forbes

Randy Forbes

True

That's one big check

"Each day our nation pays communist China $73.9 million in interest on our debt."

Donald Trump

Donald Trump

False

More to Europe than China

"Libya supplies the oil for China. We get no oil from Libya."

Todd Staples

Todd Staples

Mostly True

Numbers are off, idea is right

"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."

Robert Hurt

Robert Hurt

False

No connection between manufacturing tax credit in stimulus, Chinese jobs

Says Tom Perriello voted "to give tax breaks to foreign companies creating jobs in China."

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