Trump
slams Boeing over plans for new China facility
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[September 24, 2015]
By Harriet McLeod
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) -
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump bashed Boeing Co. on
Wednesday over its plans to open a new facility in China that the
company's largest union says could hurt American workers.
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Boeing announced on Wednesday a deal to sell China 300 new
aircraft. It is also expected to unveil an agreement to open a new
facility there that would finish and deliver 737s built at Boeing's
factory in Renton, Washington.
"Boeing is going to sell 300 jets to China, but as part of the deal,
they're going to set up a massive plant in a big section of China,"
Trump said during a speech before African-American business leaders
in North Charleston, South Carolina.
"That will end up taking a tremendous number of jobs away from the
United States," he said.
Trump's comments came on the same day Chinese President Xi Jinping
toured Boeing's Everett, Washington, factory. The Chinese leader
will also travel to Washington, D.C., later in the week to meet with
President Barack Obama.
Boeing has said the new factory in China would not lead to layoffs.
But machinist union members said it could still cost them work, and
they were expected to protest on Wednesday.
(Reporting by Harriet McLeod in North Charleston, S.C., and Emily
Stephenson in Washington; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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