Last month, the US Senate, controlled by Obama's Democratic Party, approved a bill to impose punitive taxes on Chinese imports if the yuan is not revalued, drawing an angry response from Beijing. Obama, seeking re-election next year as many heartland Americans think they lost their jobs to lower-wage China, told President Hu Jintao at the APEC summit that Americans were "impatient" for a change in Beijing's economic policy. But Hu said that a big rise in his country's exchange rate would not "solve problems faced by the United States," according to an account of the meeting posted on China's foreign ministry website.
Last month, the US Senate, controlled by Obama's Democratic Party, approved a bill to impose punitive taxes on Chinese imports if the yuan is not revalued, drawing an angry response from Beijing.
ReplyDeleteObama, seeking re-election next year as many heartland Americans think they lost their jobs to lower-wage China, told President Hu Jintao at the APEC summit that Americans were "impatient" for a change in Beijing's economic policy.
But Hu said that a big rise in his country's exchange rate would not "solve problems faced by the United States," according to an account of the meeting posted on China's foreign ministry website.