Scott Walker: Barack Obama Should Cancel Chinese State Dinner

You can just see how all of the problems Walker enumerates are going to get solved by snubbing China’s leadership.

“It shouldn’t be taken seriously”, Tim Jost, a law professor at Washington and Lee University in Virginia and an expert on the health law, said of Walker’s plan.

“It was something we knew was the right thing to do”, Walker said.

“I’ve been saying for a long time… that we’re tying ourselves so closely to Asia and in particular to China that this is going to be trouble for our country. They’re taking our money”, said GOP frontrunner, real estate mogul and television star Donald Trump in a video posted on Instagram. Walker mentioned China as a threat during his announcement speech on July 13 – a topic he seldom, if ever, mentioned before then which has become a regular part of his stump speech. Christie said he responded by cutting 800 programs in the state in his first six years in office. Cutting off dialogue with China at a time of rising tension seems disastrously short-sighted to me, but at least I understand the impulse, which is: Don’t give Xi the benefit of a high profile visit. Some of the chaos in the US market has been attributed to China’s economic slowdown, though other factors may have also had a role. U.S. president Barack Obama is scheduled to welcome Chinese president Xi Jinping to Washington, D.C. next month … but one “Republican” presidential candidate says our government shouldn’t be rolling out the red carpet. And even if the rule were changed, it wouldn’t hurt members of Congress because most lawmakers are either independently wealthy, have coverage through their spouses or are old enough to quality for Medicare, Jost said. He said the timing of Monday’s statement was intended to coincide with the stock market turmoil in the wake of the Chinese move to devalue their currency. They have renewed their friendship relationship with back and forth visits, including on a trade mission Branstad led to China in 2013.

“We need to step up and push back”, he said.

Asked about the presidential contenders’ remarks, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said their reaction “illustrates the difference between campaigning and governing”. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) – to oppose the U.S.’s controversial nuclear deal with Iran.

In his six-and-a-half years, Obama has held eight state visits for eight world leaders of India, Mexico, China, South Korea, Germany, Britain, France and Japan. Xi rarely meets with heads of state, governors and other high-ranking government officials, but Branstad took Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell with him on a visit with Xi to China’s Great Hall of the People in April 2013.

But Walker said that Obama should cancel the visit because “there’s serious work to be done rather than pomp and circumstance”.