Guess What: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Guess What: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arriving in China to promote the Special Olympics, Arnold Schwarzenegger did not shrink from politically explosive trade issues.

With China negotiating World Trade Organization membership with the European Union and a contentious Chinese trade vote in the U.S. Congress next week, Chinese reporters asked Schwarzenegger where he stood.

He pronounced himself a free-trader.

"I didn't come here for politics," he said Thursday at the opening of an Arnold Schwarzenegger film festival. "But I'm a firm believer, coming from the more conservative kind of political opinions, that all borders should open up and people should be trading among themselves all over the world."

The comments marked politics' brief intrusion into a day of promoting Special Olympics and Schwarzenegger.

The body-builder-turned-film star held a news conference on the disabled athletes' games, toured a school for the disabled and kicked off the film festival, with Terminator 2, the movie's first screening in China.(AP)