The United States vs. China

Whats behind the souring of U.S. and China relations? When Barack Obama became U.S. President, the conventional wisdom was that relations would improve. The high point came when Obama made his first visit to China in November of 2009 when both sides hoped cooperation would reach a new level. But whats happened since has been anything but. Heres the rundown of what we know.

Is the US manipulating currency?

The US senate wants to level the playing field with China as they introduce a new bill aimed at controlling foreign currencies. The senate introduced legislation today that condemns currency manipulation by foreign governments as an unfair subsidy and would slap those governments with US trade restrictions.

China a Currency Manipulator ?

Lowery Opposes Labeling China a Currency Manipulator

Is not China Currency the business of China and China only ?? why should America dictate to China its currency policy ????
March 17 (Bloomberg) -- Clay Lowery, a former assistant Treasury secretary, who is now a managing director of the Glover Park Group in Washington, talks with Bloomberg's Susan Li and Paul Gordon about the U.S. calls for China to raise the value of the yuan. U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said China is likely to decide that letting the yuan appreciate is in its economic interest. (Source: Bloomberg)

China vs. U.S. - The trade war

Discussing trade wars between China and the United States, with John Berlau, Center For Entrepreneurship and Peter Navarro, UC Irvine business professor.