Romney criticizes Obama over China while Bain sells them surveillance equipment
Mitt Romney is using the case of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng to criticize the Obama Administration for turning a blind eye to Chinese human rights violations. WSJ: Chen Case Rises in U.S. Campaign
Mr. Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, made his strongest statement to date on the White House’s dealings with Mr. Chen and the Chinese government, seeking to portray the Obama administration as willing to sacrifice Mr. Chen in order to preserve ties to Chinese leaders.
In a campaign stop in the battleground state of Virginia, Mr. Romney suggested the administration may have exposed Mr. Chen to more peril by persuading him to leave his sanctuary in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing so as not to complicate high-level negotiations with the Chinese on other matters.
“If the reports are true, this is a dark day for freedom, and it’s a day of shame of the Obama administration,” said Mr. Romney.
However there has been no word from Mitt Romney on the story that a Bain Capital fund in which he still has an interest in stands to make a nice profit selling high-tech surveillance equipment to the Chinese Government who aim to blanket the country with surveillance cameras. NYT: Firm Romney Founded is Tied to Chinese Surveillance
BEIJING — As the Chinese government forges ahead on a multibillion-dollar effort to blanket the country with surveillance cameras, one American company stands to profit: Bain Capital, the private equity firm founded by Mitt Romney.
In December, a Bain-run fund in which a Romney family blind trust has holdings purchased the video surveillance division of a Chinese company that claims to be the largest supplier to the government’s Safe Cities program, a highly advanced monitoring system that allows the authorities to watch over university campuses, hospitals, mosques and movie theaters from centralized command posts