Will China devalue the renminbi?

Chinese policymakers won’t risk reliving the turmoil of 2015 by engineering a sudden devaluation of the renminbi. They may allow the currency to weaken gradually over the coming years to help industry deal with oversupply or to offset the impact of new foreign trade protection measures. But there’s no pressing need to act now and good reasons to continue intervening to keep the renminbi fairly stable.

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