China is not declaring a “currency war”

A second downward adjustment to the renminbi reference rate today suggests that policymakers are now more willing to give in to market forces than we had previously thought. That said, we still think the changes to the reference rate primarily reflect efforts to push ahead with financial reform rather than a concerted policy move to devalue the currency.

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