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Titolo: [Dicono di noi] Fear of rising China unites polarized U.S. politicians

La fonte è afp ma il lancio è piaciuto al giornale iraniano.
 
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Fear of rising China unites polarized U.S. politicians 	
 
On Line: 11 September 2011 15:32
In Print: Monday 12 September 2011
 
With the 2012 election cycle heating up, U.S. politicians this week 
harnessed worries over a rising China to power support for everything 
from patent law reform to debt reduction -- and their own ambitions.
 
U.S. President Barack Obama led the pack, warning Thursday that 
crumbling U.S. infrastructure threatened Washington's standing as "an 
economic superpower" as he laid out a battle plan for assaulting 9.1 
percent unemployment.
 
"And now we're going to sit back and watch China build newer airports 
and faster railroads?" he said in a campaign-style speech aimed at 
shoring up his embattled reelection prospects, weighted down by the 
sluggish U.S. economy.
 
Fighting much the same battle, Republican White House hopeful Mitt 
Romney recently made confronting China over its alleged currency 
manipulation and rampant theft of U.S. intellectual property a 
cornerstone of his economic plan.
 
"I have no interest in starting a trade war with China, but I cannot 
accept our current trade surrender," said the former Massachusetts 
governor, who trails Texas Governor Rick Perry in the fight for the 
party's presidential nomination.
 
Representative Jeb Hensarling, the top Republican on a new 
"Supercommittee" ordered to shave more than one trillion dollars from 
U.S. debt in ten years, noted Beijing is Washington's largest overseas 
creditor.
 
"In interest payments alone, we are enabling China to buy two jet 
fighters a week," he said as the panel formally took up its mission on 
Thursday.
 
"Is it not our public duty to respond to this kind of warning with the 
same alarm and resolve that would be summoned to defeat any other threat 
to our nation?" he asked.
 
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon, launching a fight 
to beat back defense cuts he warns will lead to the "hollowing out" of 
the U.S. military, said he would lead fellow lawmakers to China, Taiwan 
and South Korea in late September amid worries about Beijing's growing 
arsenal.
 
"It'll give some members of the committee a little better understanding 
of what we're facing over there," McKeon told reporters of the visit.
 
And China's economic rise also featured as U.S. lawmakers sent Obama 
legislation to drag U.S. patent law into the Internet age and spur 
high-tech innovation.
 
A statement on House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, a key 
author of the measure, warned that it was needed because "this year, for 
the first time, China is expected to become the world’s number one 
patent publisher, surpassing the U.S. and Japan in the total and basic 
number of patents."
  (Source: AFP)
 
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index.php/world/2448-fear-of-rising-china-unites-polarized-us-politicians-
 
 
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 dell'Italia.
 
E che ci dovrebbero fare con i jet?
 
Ma, ecco: il motivo di interesse che ho rilevato nella notizia consiste 
proprio nella preoccupante relazione che viene posta tra pagamento di 
interessi e acquisto di armi.
 
Mentre Obama accenna al fatto che con i soldi americani la Cina realizza 
infrastrutture con le quali potrebbe surclassare gli USA, e questo suona 
come un invito al paese ad accettare la competizione su questo piano, il 
repubblicano Hensarling insinua che i soldi americani potrebbero servire 
alla Cina per diventare una minaccia militare sempre maggiore.
 
Il secondo punto di vista mi sembra preoccupante nella prospettiva di 
una possibile vittoria dei rep. alle presidenziali.
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