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1、China is pushing back at criticism from U.S. President Barack Obama about Beijings currency and trade policies. Obama says Washington does not want China to take advantage of the United States. Chinas foreign ministry responded hours later by saying Beijings economic policies were not the cause of U
2、.S. financial woes.Beijing denied President Barack Obamas claim China is manipulating the international currency and trade systems in its favor.Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin strongly defended his governments currency and foreign investment policies.Liu says far from trying to keep th
3、e yuan artificially low to benefit Chinese companies by making their products cheaper on international markets, Beijing is instead striving to manage a floating exchange rate. But he says Beijing will do so at its own pace.Liu says even if the RMB does rise substantially in value, it will not solve
4、the problems facing the United States.He says Americas trade deficit, unemployment and what he describes as “other structural problems“ are not caused by Chinas manipulation of its currencys exchange rate.President Obama used some of his strongest language yet to demand Beijing obey international in
5、vestment rules.After meeting Chinese President Hu Jintao at the APEC summit in Hawaii on Sunday, Mr. Obama said international rules are in place for all nations to follow and to allow them to compete fiercely with each other.He said the United States will “continue to be firm that China operates by
6、the same rules as everyone else.“Their role is different now than it was 20 years ago, or 30 years ago, where if they were breaking some rules, it did not really matter. It did not have a significant impact, you were not seeing huge trade imbalances that had consequences for the world financial syst
7、em. Now, they have grown up and so they are going to have to mange this process in a responsible way,“ said Obama. Liu dismissed the Presidents suggestion that China was behaving immaturely and unfavorably.He says it is America, not China, that needs to abide by international trade rules. He calls f
8、or Washington to let Chinese companies invest more in the United States.Liu also insisted that Washington relax restrictions on the export of high tech products to China, claiming this greatly profits U.S. companies. The United States bans some sophisticated technology sales to China on national security grounds.Washington is not alone in calling China a currency manipulator.The European Union also accuses Beijing of keeping its currency artificially low to help make China the worlds manufacturing capital and second-biggest economy.
