Walker calls for cancellation of Chinese president’s visit
“People are struggling to deal with the autumn in at the moment’s markets pushed partially by China’s slowing financial system and the truth that they actively manipulate their financial system”, Walker stated in a press release. In 2013, Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff canceled a state visit invitation from Obama over revelations that the United States had spied on her personal communications.
For many years, the USA and China have had a relationship fraught with mutual dependence, rising ties and lingering distrust.
Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker on Monday called for President Barack Obama to cancel Chinese President Xi Jinxing’s visit to the U.S. next month. “A part of the issue now’s that they do not respect us“.
“Once I went to China, I used to be honored to satisfy – Terry Branstad and I have been two of the primary American elected officers to satisfy with the chief of China within the Nice Corridor of the Individuals proper after he took workplace”, Walker stated then. Just because the media covers some candidates more than others doesn’t mean the rest of us aren’t talking about things. 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.
Walker’s Wisconsin public-private economic development arm, meanwhile, is planning a trade venture to China in January, and is joining a larger trade venture as part of a regional group in May.
[Read: Make economy transparent, currency market-driven: US to China].
It was the second time in as many weeks that Walker, who has been slipping in presidential polling in Iowa and elsewhere, echoed a high-profile attack line by Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
U.S. officials have said the summit will offer a chance for the Obama to raise concerns with Xi, while also making progress on other areas of cooperation such as combating climate change. “We need to see some backbone from President Obama on US-China relations”, he said.
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“…President Obama should focus on holding China accountable…”
“There’s serious work to be done rather than pomp and circumstance”.
Wisconsin governor Scott Walker, who said last week that Donald Trump does not intimidate him and discussed Trump supporters at length with The Wall Street Journal yesterday, released a statement on two of the businessman’s favorite subjects on Monday: the markets and China.