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中美就汽车、汽车零件、厨房用具和纸张展开贸易混战，自92年以来历届总统都因对华政策不够强硬而备受指责。
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Obama
World Trade Organization
Tom Wales
Oxford Analytica
Mitt Romney
renminbi
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口语节目地址：http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/2120/item/657702/Cars, car parts, kitchen appliances and paper, these are the things that make for a scuffle over trade between China and the United States. First the Obama administration announced it would launch a case at the World Trade Organization in which it accused China of illegally subsidising exports of cars and car parts. Then China retaliated by filing its own WTO case in which it challenged the duties America imposes on some Chinese imports. Of course all these filings come ahead of President Obama's re-election bid in November. So I asked Tom Wales of the research group Oxford Analytica whether he was surprised by today's action.
"Absolutely not, because in every US presidential election the incumbent candidate faces accusations that they're soft on China. That is in every election since 92. The incumbents had to defend themselves against accusations that they're insufficiently tough with China on trade and the currency issue. That is the evaluation of the renminbi versus the dollar. Mr Obama's no different. He's faced accusations that he's failed to pull the trigger on labelling China a currency manipulator from his Republican challenger Mitt Romney. And this is his way of kind of putting down a political marker on that issue. That's sad. What's going on here is actually the product of a much longer trade dispute that has absolutely nothing to do with the election. It's been sort of tit for tat ever since the end of the recession in 2009, first involving China rolled steel, then involving a Chinese retaliation against US-made cars. And now we have the US response and then a Chinese response to the US response."汽车及其配件，厨房用品和纸张等是中美之间贸易乱战的主要内容。首先，奥巴马政府宣布他们将在世界贸易组织中发起一轮新的诉讼，指控中国非法补贴汽车及其配件的出口。之后作为报复，中国在WTO的诉讼中指控美国在中国进口商品上的征税问题。当然，所有诉讼案都是在美国总统11月份大选之前提出的。对此我询问了牛津分析咨询公司的研究组成员汤姆·威尔士，问他是否对今天美国政府的表现感到惊讶。
“当然不会，因为每届美国总统选举中谋求连任的总统们都要面对其在对华问题上表现软弱的控诉。这个现象从1992年选举就已经开始了。对于这些在对华贸易和汇率问题上不够强硬的控诉，在位的总统们必然要加以反驳。关于人民币对美元的汇率问题，奥巴马也免不了要面对。他因未能有效推动给中国打上汇率操控国标签而遭到对手共和党候选人罗姆尼的控诉。这算是他（奥巴马）消除政治瑕疵的一种方式。而这简直就是个杯具。事实上这种贸易纷争由来已久，跟选举一点关系也没有。从2009年经济衰退结束到现在，这种乱战一直是针尖对麦芒，先是（美国针对）中国的压制钢材，其后是中国对美产汽车的报复性抵制。现在，我们得到了美国的反馈，接着是中国对美国的反馈做出还击。”