Since China embraced Deng Xiaoping's reforms on 22 December 1978, China has experimented with different exchange-rate regimes. Until 1994, the yuan was in an ever-depreciating phase against the U.S. dollar.
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Related After the maxi yuan depreciation of 1994 and until 2005, exchange-rate fixity was the order of the d... STEVE HANKE The U.S. berates China for its exchange rate policy, which Washington doesn't like. But one-side... ROBERT MUNDELL Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enorm... EVAN OSNOS If money is the root of all evil, then China's manipulation of its currency, the yuan, is the ta... PETER NAVARRO China has not only become a world major export country, but also an important import market ever sin... HU ANGANG If they diversify from the U.S. dollar denominated assets, it would lower the value of the U.S. doll... CHRIS LOW When interest rates rise, the rate gap with the U.S. will narrow and that will provide pressure for ... JEFFREY TAN Since China moved on the currency last July, the economy has been charging along. China should feel ... HONG LIANG U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quic... HENRY PAULSON China has been looking quite independently to make its regime more flexible. There will be a move to... BHANU BAWEJA China's side of the story. We'll also tell them that we are not manipulating the yuan exchange rate ... LIU JIANCHAO The dollar has to fall not only against China but against the whole trade-weighted basket. BARRY EICHENGREEN We are now preparing for the reform of the yuan's exchange rate system. For such reforms to take... WU YI China simply isn't going to offer Bush major adjustments in exchange rate policies. GUAN ANPING The U.S. is piling on the pressure and is likely to name China a currency manipulator, so China migh... DAVID WOO It's easier for China to assert its maritime power by creating artificial islands in the South C... DAVID IGNATIUS It would depend on the UK's GDP (last year). Number one the nominal GDP growth and number two the ex... CHEN XINGDONG China is sophisticated and understands U.S. domestic politics. And if they get branded a manipulator... ANDY ROTHMAN I am confident that China will continue its prudent and cautious exchange-rate-policy, HELMUT SCHMIDT I think President Bush was speaking to an audience at home and to other countries in the region that... ELIZABETH ECONOMY I think President Bush was speaking to an audience at home and to other countries in the region that... ELIZABETH ECONOMY We will further improve the yuan exchange rate formation mechanism and constantly make the exchange ... HU XIAOLIAN What the premier said means that China would continue to increase the flexibility of the RMB exchang... ZHOU XIAOCHUAN This has been the U.S. strategy toward China. On the one hand, economically, socially and on the int... LAI HONGYI America's largest trade deficit is with China, a nation that enjoys Permanent Normal Trade Relat... JO ANN EMERSON It is undesirable for China to see other Asia Pacific countries becoming a 'sandwich' between the U.... YANG YI The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing... ZACH WAMP Since 1978, for almost three decades, China has been growing at over nine percent a year. Yet since ... DAVID KANG This is providing favorable conditions for China to adjust its exchange-rate policy and macro-econom... YI GANG U.S. - China Economic Relations Revisited. China maintains an unjustified, WTO-inconsistent ban on U... MAX BAUCUS Under Xi, China has again become the world's top jailer of journalists. China's rank on the ... TERRY GLAVIN China has emphasized that they do not want to make the currency issue into a political issue, which ... QU HONGBIN Some US economists assume that the exchange rate is the key to fixing the trade imbalance However, s... ZHOU XIAOCHUAN Kentucky was one of 18 states plus the District of Columbia that reported an unemployment rate above... CARLOS CRACRAFT I'd like to tell everyone, the next change in the (yuan exchange rate level) is happening everyday. ... MA DELUN Being honest with you, it's not the 'great' wall of China. It's an all right wall. I... KARL PILKINGTON Our floating exchange rate regime is similar to what obtains in the US, Euro and many other countrie... JOAN JOHN Before I left China, I was educated that China was the richest, happiest country in the world. So wh... JACK MA What you have been seeing over the last year is the policy of Jiang Zemin, not Deng Xiaoping. DAVID MALPASS Moving to a truly flexible exchange rate requires a lot of preparatory steps. China is seriously eng... JOHN SNOW Clearly the outlook for the currency markets, and in particular the U.S. dollar/euro exchange rate w... ALAN WILLIAMSON China has created very good investment tools, including an entire network of very large funds. The R... VLADIMIR PUTIN China has led the world in new tree planting; in fact, over the last several years, China has plante... AL GORE This flexible mechanism, this managed floating regime, will allow us to adjust the yuan exchange rat... YI GANG We've seen dollar/yen slip on that China comment. BRIAN DOLAN China was the worst place I've ever been in my life. J. R. SMITH Deng engineered the most dramatic economic transformation of the 20th century, maybe ever. He change... GREG MASTEL We have believed for many years, much earlier than anyone else was talking about this issue, that it... RODRIGO RATO More than four decades after Nixon met Mao, the relationship between the U.S. and China has reached ... EVAN OSNOS I think it's very clear that China is introducing a new exchange rate mechanism. It is not a one-tim... ZHOU XIAOCHUAN Since 2000, China has enacted serial regulations and laws for Internet service providers, by which C... LIU ZHENGRONG We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on ... JOHN OLVER The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is... CHARLES BASS China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In... AI WEIWEI Trying to control someone is like trying to control a bull in an china shop ,so instead of controlli... GARY F EVANS... The U.S. pointing to China is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black. The deficit with China re... ETHAN HARRIS I think North Korea ?s understanding of China?s economic reforms is changing and deepening, and this... XU WENJI Comrade Deng Xiaoping -- along with other party elders -- gave the party leadership their firm and f... LI PENG Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and ful... LI PENG Canada has always been a strong supporter of China's accession to the WTO... We look forward to ... PIERRE PETTIGREW We should gradually increase imports to reduce the large surplus between U.S.-China and gradually bu... CHENG SIWEI It's clearly yen positive, especially when China is gradually allowing the yuan to appreciate day by... CRAIG FERGUSON China has undertaken several reforms related to the safety net, healthcare reform, pension reform, e... ZHOU XIAOCHUAN With greater employment taking place in China through Hong Kong, the net outlook for Hong Kong has d... SOUMEN BASU The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. I... PANKAJ MISHRA China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China so... DALAI LAMA The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds a... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA U.S. dollar pessimism continues to pervade the foreign exchange market. ALEX BEUZELIN The U.S. invaded Vietnam because many in our government - Lyndon Johnson's best and brightest - ... JAY PARINI U.S.-China relations are in difficult shape. DANIEL BLUMENTHAL I think the pressures are culminating in the foreign exchange market. With the pressures easing back... DAVID KIM The dollar was pushed down against the yuan yesterday when the two senators arrived. This is yen sup... CALLUM HENDERSON The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that ... GARY LOCKE This is a landmark move for China, to partially open the door in its capital account. The significan... DONG TAO Forging the bilateral partnership with the U.S. will make it easier for Korea to seek FTA pacts with... CHEONG INKYO The U.S. dollar is being held firm by short-term rate expectations and until there is some sign of v... ADAM MYERS The interest-rate advantage with the U.S. will continue to narrow and that will weigh on the Austral... JARROD KERR The long-term potential (for China) is more convincing than ever. Other markets in Asia may see some... ADRIAN FU I've been surprised to know that people in the U.S. often mix up Japan and China. It is sad to us, b... KARIN KEMMOCHI In China, in the past, we had a very rapid growth rate. LIU JUN The U.S. dollar is being held firm by short-term rate expectations and until there is some sign of v... ADAM MYERS China has been successful - let's accept it. We want to emulate China no matter how we say we are di... CHETAN AHYA Who's getting on an airplane? What name is that person using? When are they arriving here? We haven'... C. BLAIR Narrowing interest-rate differentials with the U.S. will continue to hit the Australian dollar. BENJAMIN PEDLEY They left China on Saturday and were due to arrive in America on Saturday, since they're 12 hours ah... KAREN PAGODA China -- and others that sell to China -- cannot take its access to the U.S. market for granted, ROBERT ZOELLICK China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness... ZHANG XIN Calculated according to the catalogue price, China has spent nearly 40 billion U.S. dollars on purch... LI JIAXIANG China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the m... GARY LOCKE If the yuan rises too rapidly, a lot of overseas investors might move their factories or companies o... TANG XU The most successful hyperpowers are the ones where there was actual intermixing. Tang dynasty China ... AMY CHUA It is an advantage for India now because the country is entering the demographic dividend phase whil... BIKRAM SEN China send the largest-ever delegation to attend the winter Olympics since we made our debut in the ... CUI DALIN China can and will be an invaluable trading partner to both the U.S. and the U.K. JAMES DYSON conducive to the development of the China-U.S. relationship. JIANG ZEMIN To the extent that anyone has leverage over North Korea, it's China. JAMES R. CLAPPER China will probe for signals from Rumsfeld and DOD [Department of Defense] on the extent to which th... EVAN MEDEIROS My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting ... TESS GERRITSEN The rate of growth from Japan, Republic of Korea and China continues to be exceptional, reflecting t... FRANCIS GURRY Politically, of course, the U.S., despite the flaws in its systems, is still a democracy - we like t... TSAI ING-WEN
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