(Hillary) said President George W. Bush had failed to enforce trade laws and not challenged China's currency "manipulation."
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China, according to Obama, had unfairly tilted the playing field by "dumping goods into our market," violating intellectual property rights, exporting unsafe toys and "grossly undervaluing" its currency.
Psssst, China, I think you're doing it wrong.
Now technically, I guess you could argue they are manipulating their currency by not letting it strengthen even faster. And you could claim the Yuan is still "grossly undervalued." But I think the appreciation of the Yuan (described as a "one way bet" by some guy on Bloomberg TV) is just not being covered in the US, so the candidates can keep saying this stuff.
p.s. I would bet my soul that McCain has said something in a similar vein within the past few months, but its not in the article I just read.
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