Beijing Pushes Back On Obama's China Rhetoric In TPP Sales Pitch

A Chinese government spokesman on Friday (Feb. 5) shot back at repeated claims by the Obama administration that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will allow the United States -- and not China -- to write the "rules of the road" for trade in the global economy. Lu Kang, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, argued in a regular press briefing in Beijing that no one country alone can write global trade rules, saying that role is played by the World Trade...