Trump taking China bashing to new levels and fanning the protectionist flames will only add to the negative discourse.
No doubt, focus groups and other campaign research support the China bashing initiative.
These days China hating in the United States takes a backseat in popularity only to China bashing in the presidential campaign.
With high unemployment and a growing trade deficit with China, I was somewhat surprised that there was not more China bashing by the candidates in 2010.
China bashing has become a bipartisan sport this election season.
And, it is in the swing states that voters have been most exposed to the Romney focus on China bashing as his key policy to create 12 million new jobs.
China bashing is a popular pastime in Washington on both sides of the aisle, with the Middle Kingdom, in general, getting the blame for everything from high U.S. jobless rates to higher ice cream prices.
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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The upsurge in China-bashing risks discouraging the People's Bank of China from buying so many Treasury bonds.
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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.
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.
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.
Chua had to go on a national media tour just to explain herself, less she be thought of as an American parenting bashing China snob.
Yesterday, Ryan stumped in North Canton, Ohio, bashing China.
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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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