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Alan Tonelson
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
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U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC RELATIONS

# of words in Treasury Secretary Geithner’s major policy speech in Beijing, June 1: 3,499

References to China’s currency manipulation: 1



Source: Calculated from “The United States and China, Cooperating for Recovery and Growth,” Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, Speech at Peking University, Beijing, China, June 1st, 2009, Reelase TG-152, Press Room, U.S. Department of the Treasury, May 31, 2009, http://www.treasury.gov/press/releases/tg152.htm 1

Alan Tonelson is a Research Fellow at the U.S. Business & Industry Educational Foundation and the author of The Race to the Bottom: Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade are Sinking American Living Standards (Westview Press).
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