Is China's Exchange Rate Undervalued?
Recently China has come under increasing pressure to revalue its currency, the Renmbini (RMB) from US policy makers. Indeed, in July 2005 China succumbed to the pressure with a revaluation of roughly two percent. This quieted the objections for a few months; however US politicians are again applying pressure on China to further revalue the RMB. Concern relating to the ballooning US current account deficit is the major motivation for the political posturing. The US's current account balance is, as of 2005, in deficit by more than $800 billion . Compare that with China's situation of a positive $129 billion current account position for the same period and you can see why there is concern over the issue.
US politicians point to the rapidly accumulating foreign reserves held by China, now amounting to over $850 million, as evidence of currency manipulation. (The Times, 28Mar06). They make the case that maintaining the artificially low position of the RMB through foreign......
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