Archive for the Category ◊ U.S.-China Relations ◊

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• Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged a reluctant China currency Yuan in price between the two giants to increase trade tensions at a summit in announcing slipped better.

Standing next to Obama after the summit, Chinese President Hu Jintao mentioned yuan or dollars saved.

However, China’s Hu burn to the media in terms ambiguous closely to avoid the need for new U.S. rates by trade protectionism during a joint appearance that made the Chinese tires, steel pipe and other products.

U.S. unemployment rate with 10.2 percent, during his three-day visit to China is putting pressure on Obama priorities of big trade imbalance between the two countries in Beijing, a movement that increase export opportunities for can lead America.

Washington argues that no one undervalued yuan is being placed on U.S. manufacturers and a loss to stoke the global economic imbalances.

, Obama “I made a commitment in China and previous statements to the market exchange rate based on time step’m happy note” with Hu on his side a platform that three Chinese and three American flags UU .. In the background.

Obama said that the exchange rate ahead of China “global rebalancing efforts will be an important contribution.

But his reference last “by China” statement can exchange signal response’m not how Beijing has been received.

Hu said the two leaders for the “broad economic and financial policies to maintain close contact and spoke of the need to continue consultations on equal footing, and properly resolve economic and trade frictions.”

“I stressed that in current circumstances, that all forms of trade protectionism, it is necessary to resist even more difficult,” Hu said.

, Beijing, China relations at Tsinghua University, director of the Center for Sun Zhe, Hu said that China’s reluctance to pose partially silence may be due to foreign pressure and saw political concessions.

“Personally, I think there after some light on the symbolic setting of exchange rate policy is Obama, but maybe, during the visit,” Sun said no.

“But many China. Believes that the main problem is the weakness of yuan, but the weak dollar. There is feeling, ‘Why do we scapegoat for their weight problems is not likely to be? Do”

In recent days the question of currencies between the U.S. has triggered heated exchanges and officer.

On Monday, China’s Commerce Ministry calls for the yuan to appreciate rejection, resistance to change in a disputed foreign exchange policy note.

External pressure that Beijing allow the yuan to rise has been built, almost one year that is frozen in place against the dollar after more than, the previous action taken by the International Monetary Fund chief said Tuesday with.

China’s central bank to manage currency last week of how an attack on your report, due to a storm of speculation that the yuan is ready to run in some rooms may be, although market expectations of recognition remained silent.

Investors in the Gulf of Beijing Yuan soon to at least the possibility of exchange by mid – 2010’s to strengthen China’s economic reforms may be disappointed as are betting growth, analysts said.

To North Korea, looking down on Iran dispute

Besides economic issues, both leaders also discussed North Korea and Iran, and promised cooperation in the fight against global warming.

Chinese leader said both sides had seen signs of a global economic recovery, but said it was a long road ahead.

Post-summit joint statement said they “to work with and to achieve more stable and balanced world economic growth were determined, dangerous imbalance filing reiterated the G20 position.

Hu appreciated that Obama, who arrived Sunday night in China a “strong, prosperous and successful in China, which plays a big role on the world stage had a single expressed.”

Obama said he has asked China enjoy all human rights of minorities and China urged the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader to resume talks with representatives want.

Obama to meet with the Dalai Lama when he visited Washington in October is fast. However, the Dalai Lama has said that after Obama gets back from China, a Tibetan Buddhist monk as a separatist demand self-determination will be condemned.

Chinese media fawning over Obama has, effusive welcome he received in Europe, in contrast. Many websites in a town hall protect freedom of the Internet on Monday removed comments have not talked to students in Shanghai.

Increase trade relations since China opened the world market reforms in the 1970s when Mao and Tung, founder of Communist China after decades of isolation under the virtual.

But because China’s side has caused an additional stress. United States exports to the Chinese than U.S. exports was 337.8 billion 2008 U.S. $ 69.7 billion U.S. dollars in China.