Trade jitters, anti-China sentiment rouse US voters

It could be expected that Iraq would play a big role in the 2008 U.S. election campaign. But if recent populist rallies are an indication, another country may be rousing even more anger from voters: China.

In all corners of an overflowing convention room this week in the industrial Rust-Belt city of Pittsburgh, voters, union officials and company executives alike railed against unfair trade -- and demanded U.S. politicians do something.

"Our government refuses to stand up to the Chinese and make a level playing field," John Ratzenberger, a U.S. television actor headlining the event, told about 800 factory workers and concerned voters, to applause.

The standing-room-only gathering was the fourth in a series of rallies in key U.S. states sponsored by the Alliance for American Manufacturing, a nonprofit group whose partners include the United Steelworkers union.

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