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China has been under increasing pressure to allow its currency, the renminbi, to appreciate, removing the effective peg to the US dollar that has been in place for more than a year since the financial crisis gripped the world.
Two days ago, US President Barack Obama ratcheted up his rhetoric, urging China to appreciate its currency, saying a "market-oriented'' exchange rate was "an essential contribution to that global rebalancing effort''.