The politician was accused of being a master
manipulator, controlling public opinion with his words.
这位政治家被指控为是个操纵大师，用他的言辞操控公众舆论。
She's a skilled
manipulator who always gets her way by playing on people's emotions.
她是个技巧高超的操纵者，总是通过利用人们的情感来达到自己的目的。
In the world of finance, stock market
manipulators can cause significant disruptions.
在金融世界中，股市操纵者可能会造成重大混乱。
His charming exterior hid the fact that he was a manipulative person.
他迷人的外表掩盖了他是一个操纵者的事实。
The therapist helped me recognize and overcome my tendency to manipulate situations.
心理治疗师帮助我认识到并克服了我操纵局面的倾向。
The marketing campaign was a clever manipulation of consumer desires.
这次营销活动是巧妙地操纵了消费者的欲望。
He felt manipulated by his friend into doing something he didn't want to do.
他觉得自己被朋友操纵做了他不想做的事情。
The child learned how to manipulate her parents to get extra dessert.
这个孩子学会了如何操纵父母以得到额外的甜点。
In psychology, emotional manipulation is considered a form of abuse.
在心理学中，情感操纵被认为是虐待的一种形式。
The film's plot revolves around a manipulative character who deceives everyone around them.
这部电影的情节围绕着一个欺骗周围所有人的操纵性角色展开。
It has become a destroyer of the multilateral trading system, a unilateralist and a bullying hegemonist, a double-standard manipulator on industrial policies, and a disturber of global industrial and supply chains.
For these reasons, China's Ambassador to the WTO Li Chenggang pointed out at the US trade policy review meeting that "since the last review, not only have some practices of the US not been corrected, but they have gone further", and what we see is "a destroyer of the multilateral trading system, a unilateralist and bullying hegemonic power, a double standards manipulator and a disturber of the global supply chain".
It is a defender of those rules rather than a manipulator.
- The US Treasury Department on Friday said that no major trading partner of the United States meets the criteria as a currency manipulator, but Vietnam, Switzerland and China's Taiwan will be under enhanced monitoring for their currency practices.
The US investigation into the "renminbi undervaluation" contradicts an earlier decision by the US Treasury Department to remove China's designation as a currency manipulator in January as part of the phase one trade deal, said Ma Yu, a senior researcher at the Beijing-based China Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation.
"The deal was preceded by other indications of an easing in US-China economic relations, including the removal of China's currency manipulator tag by the US Treasury Department and reports that semiannual economic discussions between the two countries would be revived," said Brian Coulton, chief economist of Fitch Ratings, a global credit ratings agency.
Spokesman says Washington's conclusion in line with facts, international consensusThe United States removed the label of "currency manipulator" from China on Monday, a move that a leading US expert called "just recognizing reality" and will be welcomed by investors.
The announcement came after the Trump administration designated China a "currency manipulator" in August.
China has never used and will not use the currency exchange rate as a tool to deal with external disruptions such as trade disputes, Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said at a news conference on Tuesday, after the US reversed its decision to label China a currency manipulator.
"The US dropped the currency manipulator designation the same day that a Chinese trade delegation, led by Vice-Premier Liu He, arrived in Washington for the signing of a phase-one trade deal at the White House, scheduled for Wednesday.
Mark Sobel, US chairman of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, an independent think tank, said China should never have been designated as a currency manipulator.
This came after the United States has dropped its designation of China as a currency manipulator.
In August, the US Treasury Department designated China as a "currency manipulator" following the weakening of the Chinese currency beyond 7 yuan per US dollar.
On August 5, 2019, the date on which the US Treasury declared China to be a currency manipulator, 7.89576 yuan was traded for one euro.
NEW YORK - US accusation of China as a "currency manipulator" does not hold water and would provide no advantages for the United States, US experts have said.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) "refused to label China as a currency manipulator," and the US Treasury's accusations "don't hold up," Sarwar Kashmeri, adjunct professor of political science at Vermont-based Norwich University and fellow of the Foreign Policy Association, told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Last week, the US Treasury Department designated China as a "currency manipulator" following the weakening of the Chinese currency beyond 7 yuan per US dollar.
"With the formality of labeling China as a currency manipulator, the US will have to work via the IMF.
The opening up policy will not be shaken despite the US government labeling China as a "currency manipulator", Pan Gongsheng, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, the central bank, said in a statement.
The US Treasury Department labeled China a "currency manipulator" on Aug 5, after Washington's threat to slap an additional 10 percent tariff on additional $300 billion worth of Chinese goods starting from Sept 1.
A report, released by the International Monetary Fund on Friday after its annual Article IV consultation with China, which said the yuan's level is in line with the country's economic fundamentals, was also seen as supporting China's objection to being labeled a "currency manipulator".
The report, released on Friday in Washington, was seen as supporting China's objection to being labeled "a currency manipulator" by the United States Treasury Department on Aug 5, according to officials and experts from home and abroad.
The report, released late Friday in Washington, was a blow to the labeling of China as "a currency manipulator" by the US administration, experts said.
The IMF's conclusion came in just four days after the US Treasury officially labeled China as a "currency manipulator" on Monday.
The Trump administration labeled China a currency manipulator on Monday, after yuan fell past 7 against the dollar.
"The US Treasury action declaring China a currency manipulator was blatantly arbitrary, capricious and political, based on Trump's tweets rather than on objective analysis," said Sachs.
"The US Treasury action declaring China a currency manipulator was blatantly arbitrary, capricious and political, based on Trump's tweets rather than on objective analysis," Sachs said.
The United States' labeling of China as a currency manipulator is unlikely to compel the International Monetary Fund to intervene, as it concluded recently that China's currency practices are in line with its economic fundamentals, according to experts.
China will not revise its foreign exchange policies, as the United States labeling it "a currency manipulator" is unreasonable and unlikely to get support from multilateral mechanisms, according to Chinese officials and analysts.
Based on available facts and evidence, it is unlikely that the International Monetary Fund — the most authoritative organization to arbitrate currency manipulation — will stand by the US in accusing China of being a currency manipulator, they said.
Li Chao, vice-chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said it is "irresponsible" for the US administration to label China as "a currency manipulator", as it not only violates rules and common sense, but also causes damage to the US itself and stock markets of other economies.
Mark Sobe, a former senior IMF official, told Reuters on Tuesday, "It's ridiculous that they've declared China a currency manipulator.
The US Treasury Department labeled China a currency manipulator, but the reality is very different, as the renminbi dropped beyond 7 per dollar only due to an overly bearish market, said Lynda Zhou, equity portfolio manager at Fidelity International.
IMF concluded in July that China’s currency was in line with economic fundamentalsThe United States' labeling of China as a currency manipulator is unlikely to compel the International Monetary Fund to intervene, as it concluded recently that China's currency practices are in line with its economic fundamentals, according to experts.
Ex-treasury secretary calls Washington moves on renminbi counterproductiveThe State Administration of Foreign Exchange, the country's foreign exchange regulator, said on Wednesday that the United States labeling China as a currency manipulator "is completely the opposite of the truth, and the action simply doesn't hold water".
Former US treasury secretary Lawrence Summers criticized on Tuesday the Trump administration's decision to label China as a "currency manipulator" and said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has "damaged his credibility and that of his office" by doing so.
The US action is not consistent with the quantitative criteria set by the US Treasury Department for a so-called currency manipulator, said Wang Chunying, a spokeswoman for the SAFE.
Having seen the United States label China a manipulator, the world will wonder whether and how the United States will get China to change its exchange-rate policies," Summers wrote.
The Treasury Department designated China a currency manipulator, but the US can't seek formal penalties until it attempts to strike a deal with China.
"Unfortunately, the declaration that China is a currency manipulator can be used by the president as a reason to take further unilateral actions against China," said Steve Charles Kyle, an economics professor at Cornell University.
Ex-US Treasury head says department's credibility 'damaged' by accusing China of manipulating yuanFormer US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers on Tuesday criticized the Trump administration's decision to name China a currency manipulator, and said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has "damaged his credibility and that of his office'' by doing so.
Having seen the United States label China a manipulator, the world will wonder whether and how the United States will get China to change its exchange- rate policies," Summers wrote.
''And in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Tuesday, Summers said, "I don't think there was much justification" in the Treasury's manipulator decision.
The Treasury Department designated China as a currency manipulator, but the US can't seek formal penalties until it attempts to strike a deal with China.
On Monday, the Dow lost 767.27 points, or 2.9 percent, after US President Donald Trump called China a currency manipulator.
""Most investors and traders do not find meaningful the designation of currency manipulator and most believe it is unlikely to foster successful negotiations," Andrew Karolyi, a finance professor at Cornell University, told China Daily.
"Unfortunately, the declaration that China is a currency manipulator can be used by the president as a reason to take further unilateral actions against China," Steve Charles Kyle, an economics professor at Cornell University, told China Daily.
On Tuesday, the first 25 public firms on the new STAR Market retreated after the US Treasury labeled China "a currency manipulator", with only one of them ending higher with the rest registering losses ranging from 4 to 15 percent.
Central bank criticizes the label as 'arbitrary', inconsistent with US Treasury's own criteriaChina did not and will not use exchange rates as a measure to cope with trade disputes, and the United States labeling the country as a "currency manipulator" is inconsistent with the quantitative criteria set by the US Treasury itself, the central bank said on Tuesday.
The PBOC, the central bank, made the remark following Washington's decision on Monday to label Beijing a currency manipulator.
China does not meet those three criteria, and the US said on May 28 that the country was not a currency manipulator in its semiannual currency report.
"A country cannot be designated as a currency manipulator only because of one or two days' exchange rate fluctuations," he said.
"Trump is in fact the big currency manipulator by jarring markets with his haphazard foreign policy announcements.
China on Tuesday voiced strong opposition to the US decision to label it "a currency manipulator," stressing that China has never resorted to competitive devaluation and will not use the currency as a tool to deal with trade disputes.
In a response to the designation, China's central bank refuted the unilateral move, saying the label does not meet the quantitative criteria for the so-called "currency manipulator" set by the US Treasury.
"By labeling China a currency manipulator, the US is in fact continuing its maximum-pressure approach in trade talks," said Liao Qun, chief economist of the China CITIC Bank International.
The United States Treasury announced on Wednesday that it could not label China as a "currency manipulator" after Washington monitored the recent performance of the RMB.
China didn't meet the "currency manipulator" criteria listed by the US Treasury, but Washington will continue assessing the RMB's performance given China's large trade surplus with the US, the report said.
In its Semi-Annual Report to Congress on International Economic and Exchange Rate Policies, the Treasury Department concluded that no major US trading partner met the criteria to be labeled as a currency manipulator during the four quarters ending December 2018.
In a semi-annual currency report issued Wednesday, the US Treasury Department did not list China as a currency manipulator.
China does not manipulate the exchange rate of the yuan and such an accusation is totally unfounded, said an economist and former central bank monetary policy adviser ahead of the US Treasury's decision this week on whether to designate China as a "currency manipulator".
The US Treasury is set to decide in its semi-annual foreign exchange report this week whether to name China a "currency manipulator".
That's a fact," White House press secretary Sean Spicer told a regular press briefing, in response to a question about US Treasury Department's decision not to label China as a currency manipulator last week.
"I think that the president's tweet said clearly to do so at this time would not be prudent," the White House spokesperson said, adding that labeling China as a currency manipulator now would not be very productive in addressing the Korean Peninsula situation.
PHILADELPHIA — Geoffrey Garrett, an American political economist, said US President Donald Trump was right not to label China as "currency manipulator," a term reflecting one of several misconceptions from the West about the Chinese economy.
Trump said Wednesday during an interview with the Wall Street Journal that China is not currency manipulator, reversing his tune voiced in the presidential campaign, blaming Beijing for intentionally keeping its currency low to gain competitiveness in exports.
To Garrett, branding China as a currency manipulator is one of several misleading observations about Chinese economy by Americans, along with the hype about the slowdown of Chinese economy and the overemphasis on the US trade deficit with China.
Economists have argued that China currently does not merit the label of currency manipulator, and the Chinese currency, RMB, has been at equilibrium level in recent years.
"The possibility of a trade war could be ruled out as the US government has dropped the manipulator claim, " Zhu Jianfang said, adding the two countries have huge space for cooperation, which is good for both sides.
BEIJING — US President Donald Trump's decision not to label China a currency manipulator is a wise choice that will be highly beneficial to China-US relations.
Against such a backdrop, slapping a currency manipulator tag on China could be counter-productive as it would not only harm the strategic mutual trust between the two countries but also harm bilateral trade relations -- the ballast of bilateral ties -- and increase the volatility of global markets.
What's more, China itself never manipulates its currency nor does it meet the three standards established by the US government to be officially cast as a currency manipulator.
In an interview with Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, US President Donald Trump said that his administration would not label China as a currency manipulator, and complained the US dollar was getting too strong.
[Photo/Xinhua]WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration won't label China as currency manipulator, and complained that the US dollar is too strong.
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