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'Time to blow whistle' on China: Clinton
economictimes.indiatimes.com ^ | May 04, 2008 | Economic Times

Posted on 05/03/2008 2:56:52 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton warned today it was time to "blow the whistle" on China, accusing it of unfair trade practices.

She stood close to a parade of closed shops and pawnbrokers in North Carolina as she vowed to turn the US economy around, despite fears of recession, and promised action to reverse a tide of industrial jobs moving abroad.

"We do have to get tough on China, it is long past time for us to blow the whistle," the New York senator said, in the latest of a string of campaign assaults on Beijing.

"This country manipulates its currency to our disadvantage, they engage in broad-based intellectual property theft, industrial espionage, they do not follow the rules they agreed to follow when they joined the WTO," she said.

"What do we get in return from them? Well, we get tainted pet food, we get lead-laced toys, we get polluted pharmaceuticals."

"If you want to be our partner, you've got to play by the same rules," Clinton said, three days before North Carolina's crucial primary, one of the key end-game votes in the Democratic nominating contest.

The American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition says North Carolina, in the eastern United States, has lost 211,000 manufacturing jobs since 2001.

(Excerpt) Read more at economictimes.indiatimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chutzpah; clinton
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To: Berlin_Freeper

What chutzpah! It was the Clinton Administration that sold China the technology to move forward with its developments!


21 posted on 05/03/2008 3:45:51 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
the $lave/$ervant $houldn't talk, like that to their Master($).....er..$ugar Daddie$...Major $$$$ $upporter$
22 posted on 05/03/2008 3:47:50 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (just b/c you're paranoid,doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you..our hopes were dashed by CINOs :)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Duncan Hunter, is that you?


23 posted on 05/03/2008 3:48:50 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Bipartisanship: Two wolves and the American people deciding what's for dinner)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

She’s lying, of course. Hillary Clinton is the Queen of free traitors—their most desired puppet to finish the stupid class war here.


24 posted on 05/03/2008 3:50:17 PM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt), NG, '89-'96)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Well the good news is that they armed to the teeth thanks to her and her husband because they like cash more than America.


25 posted on 05/03/2008 3:50:18 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Jeff Head

Thank you! Made my point.


26 posted on 05/03/2008 3:51:57 PM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

How ‘bout somebody ‘blow the wistle’ on the Clinton dealings with China?


27 posted on 05/03/2008 4:20:16 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: SlapHappyPappy; Berlin_Freeper
She’s kidding, right?

Beijing's latest payment of tribute must be overdue. Best they pay up soon lest they get whacked.

28 posted on 05/03/2008 4:20:59 PM PDT by E. Cartman (Ronald Reagan's single biggest mistake: Picking Poppy Bush to be his veep.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Sure, Hillary, we believe you.

Where does Hsu get the money:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889355/posts


29 posted on 05/03/2008 4:26:34 PM PDT by Rocky
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Able Danger. Not dead, just resting.....


30 posted on 05/03/2008 4:29:23 PM PDT by txhurl
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To: Berlin_Freeper
During the 1992 campaign the Clintonists made much of President George H.W. Bush's "soft" attitude toward Red China. We'll be tough, said the Clintonists.

Tough?

What did Bill and Hillary do? Make the cost of one of our national defense secrets too high so the Chi-Coms got all but one of them?

31 posted on 05/03/2008 4:38:22 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Old Phone Man

Correct, Old Phone Guy!

It was Loral Space Systems based in Mountain View, CA. However, while Bill Clinton sold us out to the Little Red Devils, Bush continued the practice and did not end Loral’s contribution to that end. Bush continued to sell our technology to Red China. Let’s give credit where credit’s due!


32 posted on 05/03/2008 4:42:06 PM PDT by levotb
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To: Berlin_Freeper
It's too bad Sen Thompson's committee could connect the dots on Slick’s ChiCom campaign donations and associated trade deals for sensitive technology to the ChiComs in exchange for campaign donations. What a missed opportunity! Now the problem is, Hillary might just be repeating the same scam under the cover of “being tough” with the Chinese. A Hillary presidency will see more trade junkets associated with campaign contributions. Eeech!
33 posted on 05/03/2008 4:46:44 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: pissant; Ultra Sonic 007; Antoninus; Duncan Hunter

Hey gang, check this out! She’s stealing Hunter’s platform!


34 posted on 05/03/2008 4:53:59 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: SlapHappyPappy
Hillary, the biggest living hypocrite.
35 posted on 05/03/2008 4:59:43 PM PDT by bmwcyle (I always rely on God and Guns in that order)
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To: mowowie

That’s a tough one to swallow!


36 posted on 05/03/2008 5:35:32 PM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: levotb

“Bush continued the practice and did not end Loral’s contribution to that end. Bush continued to sell our technology to Red China. Let’s give credit where credit’s due!”

It’s been a long time since any president was tough on the Chinese. Certainly no one named Bush ever was. GHWB must have developed a special fondness for them after his stint as Ambassador to China. And he dispatched Scrowcroft to reassure them that nothing would really change after the unpleasantness at Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Only time will tell how wise our suck-up policies toward Red China have been.


37 posted on 05/03/2008 5:52:12 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Berlin_Freeper

She been reading Duncan Hunter’s campaign page?


38 posted on 05/03/2008 8:04:56 PM PDT by TheBattman (LORD God, please give us a Christian Patriot with a backbone for President in 08, Amen.)
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To: Lockbar
BWAHAHAHAAHAAAA! ScrappleFace?

I am just gong through the older articles, and I looked at the source twice before reading the entire article. Your reply made me go BACK and look again, since I had three browsers open. I thought the very same thing - either John Semmons, Scrappleface or the Daily Redundancy.

39 posted on 05/04/2008 7:28:17 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Typical white person, bitter, religious, gun owner, who will "Just say No to BO (or HRC).")
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