In new ad, Obama challenges Romney on China trade

July 08, 2012 00:22

President Barack Obama is challenging Mitt Romney's promises to crack down on China's trading practices, saying in an ad released that the Republican candidate profited by allowing China to strip away US jobs.

Obama's ad turns again to a recent Washington Post report that several businesses backed by Romney's former private equity firm moved American jobs to China and India to cut costs. In a parting shot, a narrator says Romney is "not the solution. He's the problem."

The ad follows Obama's two-day bus tour in Ohio and Pennsylvania, where the president announced plans to file a trade complaint against China at the World Trade Organization for unfairly imposing duties on US-produced automobiles. Ohio is home to several auto plants and tens of thousands of workers directly employed by the auto industry.

China remains a flashpoint in the presidential campaign.

Romney has accused Obama of failing to live up to promises to get tough on the economic powerhouse, saying he would label China a currency manipulator on his first day in office and fight the theft of intellectual property and job losses.

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