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THE CHINA ISSUE Beyond Libya, each candidate has articulated a very different role for America in the world, as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that defined the U.S. presence overseas for a decade are either finished or fading fast.
The challenge for Obama and Romney will likely be explaining their foreign-policy priorities in ways that resonate with voters preoccupied with economic issues and a growing national debt that undermines the country's ability to act abroad.
China heads the list of issues that straddle foreign and domestic concerns, and both candidates are likely to steer discussion of the country's rising economic influence to the American economy.
Last week, Romney called China a "cheater," and said that on the first day of his administration he would brand China a "currency manipulator." That is a mostly symbolic snub, but one with possible trade repercussions.
Obama and Romney have tried to score domestic political points with tough talk on China — mostly relating to lost American jobs — that skims over the complexities of the nations' intertwined economic relationship.
Obama claimed last week that he has put "unprecedented trade pressure on China," although he has stopped short of the steps taken by the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who did designate China a currency manipulator.
Too much criticism could sour the delicate political relationship with China just as that country chooses a new 10-year leader, and risks reducing U.S. leverage to win Chinese support on the Security Council for tough sanctions against Iran and other policy priorities.
Both candidates are also likely to address Europe's debt crisis, a drag on the already precarious U.S. recovery.
Europe's economic malaise is increasingly seen as a U.S. national-security problem, and one Obama tried to blunt earlier this year with intensive negotiations with the continent's leaders.
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