China concerned over US 'protectionism'

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN

BEIJING

Beijing is increasingly concerned over protectionist sentiments in the U.S. Congress, China's finance minister said Sunday, warning legislation targeting Chinese imports would do major damage to trade between the two countries.

Minister Xie Xuren's comments came just days before the start of high-level meetings with U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and other officials.

China's massive trade surplus with the U.S. is expected to be a key issue at the talks.

In an interview with the official Xinhua News Agency, Xie said more than 50 bills touching on bilateral trade had been raised in the U.S. Congress in the year to date.

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[Deja Q]

1. Maybe China shouldn't have made toxic trash?

Melamine
Lead toys
Toxic Methotextrate (and yet we're worried about importing Canadian drugs, uh-huh...)
Date rape drugs in toys

Mattel can't apologize for all of it

China should be more concerned about product quality, if it wants to remain in a "globalized market".

At least, in theory.

[99th_Monkey]

2. So now Free Trade = inalienable right to poison trade partner's consumers?

Now who could have seen this coming? Lord only knows what kind of other toxic and/or deadly products US consumers
are being exposed to, due to the Free Trade outsourcers of American jobs in pursuit of obscenely huge profit margins.

[tom_paine]

10. And you'd better believe the Bushies will sell us peasants right out.

"Ok, China. We depend on your loans to survive. You can keep selling us poison, and we will keep pretending to be outraged."

[Mnemosyne]

11. Cancer, autism, mental health conditions and obesity on the rise, couldn't be

any connection according to some I've been attacked by here.

No "proof" of connections, just the obvious effects, duh.

And who benefits from poisoning the consumers? The same bunch making these products and providing the 'treatments' for the resulting diseases.

Heinous, imo.

[Akoto]

3. If they'd stop selling poison, trade might not be endangered. n/t

[brentspeak]

4. As if China freely allows U.S. imports to enter their market

What a joke. There already is a "trade war". And China, with the help of America's multinational elites, has won.

[Eugene]

5. Expecting China to play by the rules is not protectionism.

Free trade is not supposed to mean a race to the bottom.
And it's not protectionism to want higher standards
than "Let the buyer beware."

[JustAnotherGen]

6. What brentspeak said . . .

Adding, like it's just going to kill us to not be able to export to China. They don't buy stuff from us anyways.

[anitar1]

7. Minister XX can go straight to hell.

And so should the corrupt puppets in DC, for getting us into this mess. Poppy Bush and Clinton could be at the head of the line for starting it for their corporate masters.

[ohio2007]

8. If the dollar is so weak, why doesn't China push their shit on the rest of the world ?

It's now their turn at Russian roulette to put the gun to their head and pull the trigger.
;)

[Zynx]

9. China is hardly a model of a free and open trading partner.

I'm not saying we're perfect either, but damn they have a long way to go.