Candidates happy to play the blame game

We all know Mitt Romney, the 2012 US Republican presidential candidate, is saying that if he wins the election he will get tough on China from his first day in office.

From last weekend, we heard that we'd got it wrong, Romney had actually been working for China by outsourcing American jobs to China during his years at the helm of private equity firm Bain Capital.

In his latest campaign advertisement, US President Barack Obama accuses Romney's firm of being a "pioneer in shipping US jobs overseas, investing in firms that specialize in relocating jobs done by American workers to new facilities in low-wage countries like China".