You’ve probably noticed that during the first US presidential debate, besides “China” you can quite often hear the world “currency manipulator”. Indeed, besides claiming that China was ”stealing US jobs”, Donald Trump’s condemns China as a currency manipulator. Well is China a currency manipulator? Let’s find out.

In this episode of China Economy Podcast we will answer the following questions:
1) What is a currency manipulator? And what does that imply for the US and China?
2) How did the Chinese foreign exchange regime evolve during past decades?
3) What is the Chinese foreign exchange regime today?
4) Let’s fact check and answer to Donald Trump’s claim, is China a currency manipulator?

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