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That document, like similar reports written during the previous two administrations, did not find China guilty of manipulation.
The reason for this is simple: China does not meet the three criteria that Congress has set for determining currency manipulation.
As late as April 2, 2017, Trump labeled the Chinese the “world champions” of currency manipulation, only to reverse his position a week later, telling The Wall Street Journal, “They’re not currency manipulators.”
Examining the US-led coalition's prewar actions may well expose official deception and manipulation in making the case for military intervention.
The many brave and progressive thinkers in the Islamic world should help to awaken their societies to this reality, and people of goodwill around the world should help them to do it through peaceful cooperation and the end of imperial-style wars and manipulation.
But this was all but disallowed in the post-crisis era by US government bailouts and the Fed’s manipulation of asset prices.
There is an alarming pattern of press manipulation throughout the region, from Honduran authorities cutting off a national radio station’s telephone service to Argentine officials shuttering a printing press.
The picture is not all grim, and, ironically, reporting on news manipulation has helped galvanize politicians in some countries to create better and more enforceable rules of the road.
After all, the Russian media do not seem more trustworthy, better informed, or more professionally run than in most countries; quite to the contrary, they are owned by a few oligarchs, and their bias and manipulation are both transparent and crude.
For example, they must prevent the manipulation of reviews and other practices that mislead consumers trying to assess the quality of a company’s service.
But many in the US Congress insist that provisions must be added to the agreements to prevent currency manipulation.
Linking efforts to prevent currency manipulation to trade agreements has always been a bad idea, and it still is.
China is not a party to the TPP, but Japan is, and many congressional critics cite it as the target of their insistence that provisions to prevent currency manipulation be included in the deal.
The yen has depreciated sharply over the last year, and some US economic interests, particularly the auto industry, accuse Japan of manipulation to keep the currency undervalued.
The euro, too, has depreciated significantly against the dollar over the last year, and some US trade critics want provisions to prevent currency manipulation added to the TTIP.
Critics who accuse Japan and other countries of currency manipulation presumably know that they have not been intervening in the foreign-exchange market in recent years.
If monetary expansion does not merit the charge of currency manipulation, still less do other sorts of economic policies.
Some have argued that even though the PBOC has stopped buying US and other foreign assets, China’s sovereign wealth funds still do, and that this, too, counts as manipulation.
Whether one considers the accusations of currency manipulation against the US in 2010, its trading partners in 2015, or a future defendant, designating some trade agency to rule on them would merely cause trouble.
Because the Government has not sufficiently liberalized domestic gas prices, manipulation is easy.
As opposed to his dealings with non-Serbs, this wily authoritarian's preferred methods of domestic political struggle are unscrupulous manipulation of friend and foe, bribery, propaganda, and electoral fraud.
But 2004 was also a bitter failure for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who tried to bring his favored presidential candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, to power in Kyiv by supporting massive vote manipulation.
But a moment's reflection should remind us that Europe's problems are not amenable to currency manipulation.
A final structural threat to American democracy is the partisan manipulation of legislative procedures.
Sino-American relations are susceptible to hysteria, in terms of American public opinion, and to hysterical manipulation insofar as Chinese public opinion is concerned.
The US naively continues to view the Middle East as an object of manipulation, whether for oil or for other purposes.
Genetic engineering rests on the manipulation of DNA molecules (whether real or artificially constructed) in order to reprogram foreign cells.
To be fair, central banks are not immune to manipulation, and fighting off political pressures is an endless battle.
They would have collapsed much more had a vast scheme to prop up their price via outright manipulation not been rapidly implemented.
Much speculation has centered on the recent damage to London’s reputation stemming from the scandal surrounding banks’ manipulation of the Libor interest rate.
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