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Clinton fires China Christmas toys warning

Democratic 2008 front-runner Hillary Clinton blamed China for a tide of millions of toy exports which she warned could be defective and endanger American children at Christmas.

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SHENANDOAH (Iowa): Democratic 2008 front-runner Hillary Clinton on Tuesday blamed China for a tide of millions of toy exports which she warned could be defective and endanger American children at Christmas.
 
The former first lady also recalled how she had 'stood up' to the Beijing government in 1995 at an international conference on women on a day in which she ridiculed her Democratic rival Barack Obama's foreign policy credentials.
 
"One of the things I don't believe we should have to worry about is the safety of our food that is served for Thanksgiving or the toys that we buy our children for Christmas," Clinton told a crowd of Iowa voters by telephone.
 
The former first lady had been forced to call in to a campaign event in the crucial electoral state after her plane was diverted to an airport 65 miles (100 kilometers) away.
 
She complained that there had been 72 recalls of toy models so far this year in the United States and said the US government had not taken appropriate steps to protect consumers.
 
"That's approximately 32 million individual toys. And more than 99 per cent of them were made in China," Clinton said.
 
"These were trusted names, like Thomas and Friends and Elmo and Dora the Explorer and even Big Bird," she said, reeling off a string of beloved children's characters.
 
Clinton said the situation was "just as shameful" regarding food safety, tapping an issue of increasing potency in the White House campaign, 43 days before the lead off Iowa accuses nominating contests.
 
"We are not inspecting food the way we nee to, when it's imported from Chin," she said, and called for new leadership at the US Consumer Product Safety omission.

 

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