SINGAPORE (Nov 8): US presidential hopeful Donald Trump says countries in Asia such as China, India and Singapore are stealing jobs from Americans, and vows to stop “job-killing” trade deals such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Speaking at a campaign rally in Florida on Sunday, Republican candidate Trump reportedly called it “the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world”.

"America has lost 70,000 factories since China entered the World Trade Organisation, another Bill- and Hillary-backed disaster," said Trump. “There's never been a country that's lost jobs like we do, so stupidly, so easy to solve."

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