Obama's Acceptance Speech & China

Great acceptance speech preceded by a week full of inspiring speeches from Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden. Unfortunately, the 4 references to China were negative. Here they are in order of most transparently about China to most opaquely about China, and oddly in the order they were delivered in the speech:

1. "We're a better country than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment he's worked on for 20 years and watch it shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news."
2. "Ours is a promise that says government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves -- protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools and new roads and science and technology."
3. "You know, unlike John McCain, I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America."
4. "And I'll invest $150 billion over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy -- wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and 5 million new jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced."

I've already got a pony in this race. Despite the negativity on China, this political race has greater implications than trade with China and I'm mostly willing to overlook what Obama is currently saying about China, and hope that it is still just campaign rhetoric.

Also see Tom Chow on Joe Biden's China views during the primaries.
And see me on views espoused by the Democratic candidates during the NPR primary debate.