• Mitt Romney after his visit to china commented that China
will be more of an economic competitor than the United States
recognizes.

• He said the Chinese are hardworking, market oriented and
smart. Even the taxes they impose in certain areas are lesser.
This shows that they are competing to win.

• The US should reach out to China and charter a course
that is equivalent to a free economy and a free society. This
goal should be at par with those of the US.

• Answering to the question whether China was a human
rights disaster Romney responded that he believes in building
bridges and not walls.

• Mitt Romney spoke about the detention of a Massachusetts
citizen with Chinese officials and asked for his early release.

• He stressed working with China should not be at the cost
of security interests and human rights.

• He said that the US market must make sure that the
Chinese markets are welcoming to US goods.

• Romney stressed the need to ensure that China respected
US intellectual property rights as well as they enforce their
own.

• He said China has a vested interest in a strong US
economy which will buy more Chinese goods and have no intention
to bury the USA.

• He believes that a healthy relationship with China will
help to keep away nuclear weapons from North Korea Iran or other
terrorists.

• He said one of his highest priorities will be to make
China a partner for stability in the world.		

• He says that it is necessary to balance US trade
relationships with China. He advocates a tougher regulatory
stance.

• Huckabee says that The US has not challenged them enough
on intellectual property rights. He attributes this reason for
Chinese food and toys that are not safe coming into the country.

• He commented that the American government has failed in
it's attempts to curb currency manipulations on the part of
Chinese traders who buy up large amounts of currency and then
proceed to manipulate them to artificially lower their prices and
force things back into the country.

• Huckabee pointed out that this practice has led to a
trade deficit which is over $232 billion.

• During his campaign he said that he is not as concerned
about china as he is about more radical and threatening regimes.

• In 2006, Mike Huckabee visited Taiwan and met with
President Chen Shui-bian. In 2005 he as Governor of Arkansas had
passed a resolution commending US-Taiwan Free Trade agreement.

• The National Governors Association passed a resolution
supporting Taiwan in 2003, during Mike Huckabee's time as NGA
Chairman.

• He commented that China needs to adhere to all the rules
which are required to be met in trade issues, intellectual
property rights and the decent treatment of workers.

• He said that China is becoming more a part of the
mainstream in economic development as well as in giving liberties
to the people.