SINGAPORE, Nov 15 — The United States and China sparred over exchange rates at a meeting of Asia Pacific leaders today, pointing to tricky talks ahead for President Barack Obama when he flies to China to address economic tensions.
The discord surfaced at a summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum in Singapore when a reference to “market-oriented exchange rates” was cut from a communique issued at the end of two days of talks. An Apec delegation official said Washington and Beijing could not agree on the wording.
That underscored strains likely to feature when Obama flies to Shanghai later today following moves by Washington to slap duties on various Chinese-made products and a growing drumbeat of pressure on Beijing to let its yuan currency strengthen. Chinese officials have grown testy about the pressure over the yuan. Chinese banking regulator Liu Mingkang told a forum in Beijing today that ultra-low interest rates in the United States were fuelling speculation in overseas asset markets and threatened the global economic recovery.
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