Presidential Debate provokes tensions on “Trade with China”

Beijing urged the US presidential candidates to refrain from inflaming tensions with China after President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney vowed to get tough with the Asian giant. Both men vowed to be firm on China at their final presidential debate.US politicians no matter from what party should view China’s development in an objective and rational light and should do more for China-US mutual trust and cooperation, The sound and steady development of China-US relations serve the fundamental interests of both countries and both peoples, it is also conducive to regional and world peace, stability and prosperity.”

During the debate, Romney repeated his vow that, if elected, he would declare China to be a currency manipulator on his first day in office, charging that Beijing has kept its yuan artificially low to flood the market with cheap exports.”They’re taking jobs. They’re stealing our intellectual property, our patents, our designs, our technology, hacking into our computers, counterfeiting our goods,” Romney said. But despite the tough talk, he discounted the possibility of provoking a trade war with Beijing should he win the November 6 vote.Obama pledged cooperation with the rising power despite numerous trade disagreements and a gaping US trade deficit with China — which stood at nearly $300 billion last year.”China’s an adversary and also a potential partner in the international community if it’s following the rules, Obama opined.China’s state press lashed out at the anti-China tone of the discussions. Willing or not, Democratic or Republican, the next US president shall have to tone down his get-tough-on-China rhetoric made along the campaign trail.It added: “Both US presidential candidates vowed at their third and last debate… that they would press Beijing to ‘play by the rules’ in shaping their bilateral ties.However, their definition of ‘rules of the road’ is primarily pro-American.

 

Presidential debate revealed out US’s unfaithful foreign policy!

America’s trust deficit with Pakistan was evident today as Barack Obama and Mitt Romney clashed on key foreign policy issues in the final presidential debate here during which the President savaged his Republican rival for his “wrong and reckless leadership”.In the last of the three high-stake 90-minute debates ahead of November 6 elections, President Obama was the aggressor from the start of the encounter which provided both the candidates a last chance to appeal to millions of voters in what appears to be a neck-and-neck race to the White House.

According to a CNN snap poll, Obama won the final presidential debate; and same was the case for other opinion polls including that of CBS news. While 48 per cent voted for Obama and 40 per cent supported Romney in the CNN poll. On the broader concept of the US foreign policy during the debate, both Obama and Romney agreed that the US should not allow Iran to go nuclear, would support Israel in case of attack, the 2014 withdrawal time line from Afghanistan, and the need to take stronger action against China. However, they exchanged jabs on the size of the US military, and the current situation in the Middle East – Libya and Syria in particular. To the surprise of many Benghazi where a terrorist attack on the US Consulate was not mentioned even a once during the debate; which appeared prominently in the previous debate. India, the relationship with which there is a bipartisan support in the US, did not figure even once during the prime-time foreign policy debate.For the first time probably the US President went public to explain why he did not seek Pakistan’s permission to send his commando to Abbottabad to kill Osama bin Laden. Had he taken such a call, bin laden would have never been killed, 51-year-old Obama said. On his part, 65-year-old Romney argued for conditional aid to Pakistan, but was against any move to cut off its relationship with an unstable country that has more than a 100 nuclear weapons which is home to terrorists as well.