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What does the coronavirus have to do with currency manipulation? “Historically, [China] would have met the definition of a currency manipulator 15 years ago," but there’s little evidence to support the notion that China has manipulated its currency in recent years, David Dollar tells CNBC. However, this history of statistical mistrust has continued to be a point of contention between the U.S. and China, even amid the coronavirus crisis,
China's role in the Equifax hack and the U.S. response. Robert Williams argues in The Atlantic that one reason the Justice Department publicly indicted Chinese actors for hacking into Equifax files earlier this month may be to provide a legal predicate to the Pentagon to give it forward-defense options.
Xi Jinping and the coronavirus crisis: "As the virus spread, the government generated admiring headlines around the world by announcing the construction of two hospitals in a matter of days," writes Evan Osnos in the New Yorker, but the "gap between hype and reality has strained the Chinese public’s faith in official pronouncements about the crisis."
More coronavirus analysis. In an interview with Liu Xin of CGTN, Cheng Li opines on China's coronavirus containment efforts.
