Prods china, gently, on its weak currency caught between beijing and the trump administration, the international monetary fund offered mild criticism of china for relying too heavily on. China may devalue its currency, the yuan, to offset us tariffs, which could ignite a global currency war and exacerbate fears of capital outflow from emerging markets. In a recent piece for the financial times, gerard lyons, a british economist who sits on the board of the bank of china (uk), argued that china’s currency, the renminbi, is undervalued, and that by encouraging it to appreciate, china would help raise its international profile.
There are two primary interpretations of china’s move China has been a persistent outlier here, combining unusually high levels of investment with even higher domestic savings rates and an ongoing surplus. The first is that it constitutes a deliberate, if limited, devaluation
