In 2005, Zhou Xiaochuan, the Central Bank Government of China who has been in power for the past 13 years, announced that the Renminbi would switch exchange rate regimes and would begin to follow a more flexible regime that was tied to a basket of different currencies. Prior to this new change, the Chinese yuan was strictly pegged to the US dollar, which helped them thrive economically in the global market. Less than a decade before the exchange rate regime was changed, the Asian financial crisis occurred and many East Asian countries were impacted. Compared to its neighboring countries, China was not impacted as badly as other countries, therefore it continued to stay afloat during this difficult period of time and continued after the …show more content…
Asian Financial Crisis The Asian Financial Crisis, that began in the middle of 1997, was a surprise to many. It all started when Thailand had a financial crisis which ended up spreading to its neighboring Southeast Asian countries. This mass spread was largely due to the intense devaluation of currencies in Asia . The crisis caused mass capital outflows and investor flight because investors lost confidence in the financial systems in many of those countries. Although it started out being contained in Thailand, it spread to other East Asian countries and ended up impacting Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, Hong Kong, and China. Consequently, the lack of investor confidence caused the international stock markets suffered from this crisis, which also impacted other countries that reside outside of the Asian continent. During the crisis, the greatest issues that China faced were a decrease in income level, many of its companies went under, and there was tremendous pressure on the yuan to devalue (Yongding, 164). The Chinese government at this time had concluded that being pegged to the US dollar at a market exchange rate that equaled about 1 USD= 8.28RMB was the best chance they had to keep the yuan stable (Frankel and Shang Jin, 595). The stability that the US dollar was able to provide the Chinese yuan helped the issues it was facing not become even bigger ones. If the Chinese yuan had devalued more than it
China has seen massive economic growth in the past few decades. Since its reopening in the 1970s, the country has begun trading and buying foreign currencies with western nations like the United States. When the housing crisis which began to unravel in 2007 really hit the American economy hard, China was more than happy to step in and put up funding to help keep the American economy, one of its biggest customers, in a delicate balance. Unfortunately, the American economy has been incredibly slow to recover from the last major recession. As such, it has increased its dependence on Chinese funding to back American debt.
In conclusion, I think that China should change its policy because it is damaging not only the U.S. economy but the economy globally. Countries such as the United States are still recovering from the economic recession we are still leaving in. It is obvious that if China let the Yuan appreciate their exports will decrease and imports will increase making their trade surplus to decrease. If this happens international countries will be grateful because by this happening means that their export will increase and employment will increase. Countries should avoid doing currency manipulation or artificially devaluing their currency because it just hurts the global economy and it promotes other countries to do the same – it hurts everyone.
China, the largest growing market in the world, currently has a policy regarding monetary regulation that allows the Yuan to “float”. This has seen the Yuan appreciate by approximately 24% over the past few years. Today, the exchange rate between the Chinese Yuan and the American Dollar is approximately 6.3 Yuan to 1 Dollar. Some argue that China should revalue the Yuan again the dollar, establishing a more fixed exchange rate. Others believe that current should allow
The change in the exchange rate policy to move to a more flexible floating exchange rate system will inevitably compromise China’s current advantageous position in trading especially the export which takes a heavy weight in China’s GDP. The appreciation of RMB will deprive the Chinese enterprises of the advantage to leverage the cheap materials and labor to compete in the international market. This might be a positive indication for China’s importers who has a focus on the domestic markets rather than the international market, where the importers’ purchasing power gets enhanced if the domestic currency appreciate. However, China is still heavily relying on export to grow their GDP at this point and a revaluation of RMB would be very dangerous for the country. Thousands of factories counting on exports might be closed and millions of workers would lose their jobs. As pointed out by Morgan Stanley Economist Andy Xie in the case, “China’s priority is stability and currency flexibility should not be allowed to conflict with this goal”. On the flip side though, a revaluation of the RMB would not necessarily change the current situation of US and EU who had a large trade deficit with China. The reduced imports from China are unlikely to stimulate the growth of the domestic productions of those
The leadership objectives and needs of the West Texas Fire Department (WTFD) differ from those of the West Fertilizer Company (WFC). For the WFC, the goal is not based upon employees performing beyond their own expectations; thus, they are provided a structured environment in which they are evaluated on the ability to perform assigned tasks. No more, or no less. In emergency response, firefighters will always be challenged to go above and beyond the call of duty. Because of the challenge to constantly increase firefighter performance, the WTFD should implement a transformational leadership plan.
These effective strategies helped Hong Kong overcome the financial crisis. All these facts fully demonstrated that China is a responsible big country. After the Asia financial crisis, the importance of China's economy has been brought into focus; China's neighboring countries have begun to recognize the influence of the Renminbi.
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Secondly, the fixed dollar-pegged exchange rate system and monetary policy, the independence of the existence of a fundamental conflict, undermine the effectiveness of monetary policy cannot meet the needs of economic development. Monetary policy autonomy is essential for China’s macroeconomic stability; monetary policy should take precedence over the independence of significant exchange rate stability. But the Yuan against the U.S. dollar exchange
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The Asian Financial Crisis was a period of financial crisis that gripped much of Asia beginning in July 1997, and raised fears of a worldwide economic meltdown (financial contagion). It is also commonly referred to as the IMF crisis.
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