{"id":106087,"date":"2009-12-27T16:35:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T21:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/wen-jiabao-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-27T16:35:39","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T21:35:39","slug":"wen-jiabao-a-weak-yuan-is-awesome-for-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/106087","title":{"rendered":"Wen Jiabao: A Weak Yuan Is Awesome For the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4b37d18f0000000000ba2675&amp;maxX=400\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Wen Jiabao\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy interview with Xinhua, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made it pretty clear to the Chinese press that he wouldn&#8217;t yield to international pressure for a yuan revaluation.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s doing fine as is, and is actually helping pull the world economy out of its slump. Thus China will simply adjust the yuan when its ready.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/3069c326-f2e5-11de-a888-00144feab49a,dwp_uuid=9c33700c-4c86-11da-89df-0000779e2340.html?ftcamp=rss&amp;nclick_check=1\">FT:<\/a> &rdquo;We will not yield to any pressure of any form forcing us to appreciate. As I have told my foreign friends, on one hand, you are asking for the renminbi to appreciate, and on the other hand, you are taking all kinds of protectionist measures,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">By keeping the Chinese renminbi stable against the US dollar, China was contributing to the recovery in the global economy, he said. <strong>&rdquo;The purpose [of these calls for appreciation] is to hold back China&rsquo;s development,&rdquo; he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2009-12\/27\/content_12711333.htm\">Xinhua:<\/a> &#8220;A stable Chinese currency is good for the international community,&#8221; Wen told Xinhua News Agency in an exclusive interview.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that Mr. Jiabao will probably be talking a little tougher against the international community when directly addressing the local press, just like any U.S. president would do. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2009-12\/27\/content_12711333.htm\">Read more about the Xinhua interview here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/wen-jiabao-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/china-gold-23-12-2009\">How China Might Buy More Gold Than America Owns<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/china-faces-a-worker-shortage-in-2010-2009-12\">China&#8217;s Multi-Decade Worker Shortage Starts Next Year<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/i-was-in-the-room-when-china-purposely-ruined-copenhagen-to-humiliate-obama-2009-12\">I Was In The Room When China Purposely Ruined Copenhagen To Humiliate Obama<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/Z7jeldgXWbM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a lengthy interview with Xinhua, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made it pretty clear to the Chinese press that he wouldn&#8217;t yield to international pressure for a yuan revaluation. China&#8217;s doing fine as is, and is actually helping pull the world economy out of its slump. Thus China will simply adjust the yuan when its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}