currency-manipulation

Western leaders say China's currency manipulation gives it a home field advantage. But even so, China faces domestic pressures.

No doubt Chinese currency manipulation has contributed at least partly to global imbalances.

Much of this weakening was driven by competition from China that had been greatly helped by government subsidies and currency manipulation.

In July, the U. S. Treasury declined to cite China for currency manipulation in a report to Congress, angering some Democratic leaders.

This is the kind of currency 'manipulation, ' that the U. S. Treasury likes -- and has taken note of privately.

"These numbers show just how little motive China has to end its currency manipulation unless it is pushed to do so, " he said.

The impact of China's currency manipulation on the U. S. economy cannot be overstated.

A more productive course would be to tax Chinese currency manipulation rather than Chinese exports.

Some observers have suggested the US bring its own case against China to the WTO over currency manipulation, though that would take years.

U. S. manufacturers and unions also have called on the U. S. to take China to the WTO over alleged currency manipulation.

A rising outcry in the US against China's alleged currency manipulation is being expressed in Europe more as a muffled complaint.

The issue of whether to confront China over the allegations of currency manipulation is difficult for the Obama administration.

Cheap labor may well be the main reason for China's manufacturing advantage, but currency manipulation could be another, the EPI states.

Germany's blunt-speaking finance minister also accused the United States of Chinese-like currency manipulation.

That leaves Beijing with fewer tools to engineer its take-off. Among those it has are capital controls and currency manipulation.

In both cases, the tariffs are designed to compensate US companies for what the Congress perceives to be explicit currency manipulation.

Added to its labor cost advantage, this currency manipulation has been devastating to many U. S. companies.

For example, the commission did not highlight Chinese currency manipulation or Beijing's control of China's media and flow of information.

Currency manipulation, trade gaps and protectionism are the major topics the group is expected to discuss.

The US Treasury department is to release a report shortly on currency manipulation by US trading partners.

Washington should work with the rest of the world to push China away from currency manipulation.

But Hank Paulson's Treasury studiously avoided accusing Beijing of "currency manipulation" , a term that carries legal implications.

China's currency manipulation would be unacceptable even in good economic times.

Discussions on currency manipulation, the food crisis, and protectionist subsidies should route through Geneva.

Nonetheless, many on Capitol Hill claim that currency manipulation to support China's exporters has maintained global imbalances.

Second, we ask the Department of Treasury to include China in its bi-annual agency report on currency manipulation.

China's currency manipulation would be unacceptable even in good times.

"China must stop flouting the rules, and ending its currency manipulation is one important step in that process. "

This surely is currency manipulation. It is also protectionist, being equivalent to a uniform tariff and export subsidy.

It is not being produced by Beijing's currency manipulation or hidden subsidies but by strategic investment and hard work.

Thanks to this new version of competitive currency manipulation, the dollar-peggers racked up gargantuan trade surpluses.

The angry statements about currency manipulation continue, with anger focused on China's renminbi.

MR. MURRAY: Is currency manipulation a real problem?

But the seemingly unstoppable run of double-digit growth (propelled in part by Beijing's currency manipulation) is over.

Rather than berate Washington, it should abandon its currency manipulation.

It produced yet more pious words about China's predatory currency manipulation, but nothing of substance.

Trade wars, currency manipulation and asset price inflation in China are part of a vocabulary that departs from Pandit's usual scripts.

But then he and the Obama administration backed off and have since stayed away from highlighting the issue of currency manipulation.

In Washington, members of Congress are itching to punish China for its currency manipulation.

America's Senate has sought to punish China for currency manipulation with tariffs.

He has accused China of currency manipulation and opposes a trade deal with South Korea.

What's more, the evidence for currency manipulation is weakening.

One way to think about what's happening is that inflation is the market's way of undoing currency manipulation.

In the US, the words "currency manipulation" are fighting words.

The worry is that if such currency manipulation continues, it could wreak havoc on international trade.

If there is currency manipulation, it is in Beijing.

That is why the charge of currency manipulation is false.

And so the currency manipulation goes on.

We urge your agencies to respond to China's currency manipulation with the actions outlined in this letter.