Three bunk beds stand stacked on top of each other in each dormitory-like room, housing 12 young Chinese laborers. They share "little bathrooms" with 10 other 12-person rooms. Outside barbed-wire fences with guard towers surround the factory compound where 20,000 women between the ages of 18 and 23 work long hours assembling small appliances, earning a "pittance" to save up for marriage.
This was the scene at a Chinese factory as described by Mitt Romney during a closed-door fundraiser that was stealthy recorded and posted online Saturday. Romney was recounting a trip he took to the factory "back in my private equity days" as the head of Bain Capital when he "went to China to buy a factory there."
The point of his story was to demonstrate that, as Romney concluded, "95 percent of life is settled if you are born in America."
"This is an amazing land and what we have is unique and fortunately it is so special we are sharing it with the world," he said.
But for a GOP nominee who has take a hard line against China, dubbing the country a "currency manipulator" and accusing it of snubbing intellectual property rights, the tale of his previous investments in Chinese factories is adding fodder to the Obama campaign's claim that Romney will outsource jobs to China rather than create them in America.
Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Monday that the leaked video "really highlights the chutzpah he has to criticize the president."
When asked by ABC News' Jon Karl about the surreptitiously shot video, Romney senior adviser Ed Gillespie handed off responsibility to Bain.
"As for Bain, you know that video is old, you can call Bain and ask them what they did in terms of investing on it, I don't have any information on that," Gillespie said.
A person familiar with Bain's activities told ABC News "we didn't buy the factory."
The leaked fundraiser video comes just days after the Romney campaign shifted its advertising focus to attack President Obama for "failing" to be tough against China's "cheating" trade practices. In an ad released Thursday Romney accuses Obama of watching 582,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs disappear since he took office while China's share of world manufacturing outpaced America's for the first time in history.
"President Obama promised to take China 'to the mat,' but instead he has allowed China to treat the United States like a doormat," Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said. "Mitt Romney will stand up for American workers, make sure China plays by the rules, protect intellectual property rights, and ensure that more jobs are created here in America."
The Obama campaign fired back on Saturday, releasing a video of Obama's deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter saying Romney outsourced American jobs to China while at the helm of Bain Capital and still holds investments in Chinese companies.
And in Ohio on Monday, Obama sought to defend his record on China, announcing that his administration is bringing another complaint against China to the World Trade Organization claiming the country is unfairly subsidizing auto parts to draw auto manufacturing to China.
"Those subsidies directly harm working men and women on the assembly line in Ohio and Michigan and across the Midwest," Obama said at a campaign rally this morning. "It's not right; it's against the rules; and we will not let it stand."
18 Sep, 2012
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