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Is there any currency manipulator in Asia?
Despite Trump's recent accusation, neither China nor Japan, or any country in Asia, fulfills the US Treasury's criteria for currency manipulation. Nonetheless, the risk of trade tensions between the US and China make some Asian FX vulnerable. Since late 2015, we have published a monthly update on 11 currencies in EM Asia, one page for each currency, which looks into the currency movements as well as the general growth outlook. The pdf attachment can be found at the bottom of this page. In early February, Donald Trump accused China and Japan of currency manipulation. Associated with his campaign promise to brand ... (full story)