There was a very misleading advertisement to this effect that was refuted by Jeep. I believe their Toledo Oh plant is adding 1100 jobs
http://www.toledonewsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=3038849
http://www.toledoblade.com/Automotive/2011/08/11/Jeep-expansion-to-add-1-100-jobs.html
The China connection came from a piece in Bloomberg News that stated that they will be opening a plant in China. (New manuf. not moved manuf.) -- It is the law in China that companies must hire Chinese workers and Partner with Chinese companies.
I think that as citizens - regardless of which party - we need to hold our politicians to telling the truth to the American People.
ETA - Just to add--- the entire rust-belt has been hit very hard in the last decades...the auto industry reach goes far beyond the automakers with a huge ripple effect thoughout the entire mid-west and great lakes region.
I think you may want to go look at the so called "misleading advertisement". The add truthfully said that jeep is going to open a plant in China. And building a plant in China will let the companies get around this:
http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2011/12/china_says_us_is_dumping_cars.html
And once they have the plant up and running in China then how many will be imported to China from here ? They buy about $4 billion a year in Jeeps and parts now.