China’s luck on Yuan devaluation risks running out
23 July 2018 |
3:59 pm
For more than a month, China seemed to be enjoying the advantage of exchange-rate depreciation without the global backlash and panicky capital outflows that accompanied the bout of yuan weakening in 2015.
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