The upsurge in China-bashing risks discouraging the People's Bank of China from buying so many Treasury bonds.
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Some oversensitive people interpret the ad as China-bashing, and the Chinese government issued a pro forma denunciation.
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The bad news is that it is finding its expression in an outbreak of self-destructive China-bashing.
One can only hope that if elected, Romney sheds his China-bashing ways while embracing a strong dollar.
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However, I find the current round of China-bashing disingenuous and brazen in its kowtowing to politically viable groups.
With America's unemployment at 9.7% and the mid-term elections approaching, the appeal of China-bashing is rising in Congress, too.
Despite the protectionist rhetoric that still sometimes seeps into his speeches, Mr Obama would not sponsor a China-bashing bill.
With the exception of a China-bashing tyre tariff and a retreat on Mexican trucks, Mr Obama has eschewed protectionism.
The current bout of China-bashing is not a replay of the 1980s.
The Bush administration has been able to deter some of Congress's more extreme China-bashing plans by pointing out that they are illegal under world trade rules.
CNOOC, a state-run Chinese firm, tried to buy Unocal, but scuttled away as China-bashing reached fever pitch in America's Congress, leaving the door open for Chevron.
One reason, to be sure, is to play to domestic audiences: China-bashing is always popular during American elections, and the euro crisis has turned Europeans sour on China too.
It is not Apple-bashing , or China-bashing, to suggest that significant labor unrest in China would be a big issue for Apple and its ability to deliver its products.
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Alas, such pragmatism in Toledo is not matched by national politicians, who have resorted to some of their fieriest China-bashing when in Ohio, a must-win swing state for both parties.
China-bashing in the United States easily jumps party lines.
The recent uptick of China-bashing during campaigning in Ohio is of little concern, analysts say, with simplistic campaign rhetoric increasingly divorced from the post-electoral nuances necessary for dealing with a rising superpower.
Gary Bauer, an influential religious agitator, this year took up China-bashing for the first time, and made an alliance with his ideological foes in the trade unions to oppose Chinese access to American markets.
And given the importance of maintaining American support for talks to liberalise trade in financial services, to expand the North American Free-Trade Agreement and to bring China into the World Trade Organisation, an upsurge of Japan-bashing and anti-import rhetoric in Washington would quickly affect the rest of the world.
Yet by all accounts, Romney is fully committed to the negative sum policy of bashing China, instead of the positive sum pro-growth policies in his quest for the Oval Office.
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