By: Andrew B. Busch
CNBC Contributor
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After the less than satisfying G20 meetings, the latest newsflow out of China is centered on what to do about inflation and how to counteract QE2. To wit:
People’s Bank of China’s Prof Wang said, “The growth of prices has accelerated since September mainly because of intensive hot money inflows because of yuan appreciation and new quantitative easing measures by the U.S....It's an urgent job for the central bank to tighten up liquidity and it needs new policy tools to do so." Shanghai Securities News.
China Investment Corporation’s Hong Kong chairman Lawrence Lau said China should stop purchasing US Treasuries but should continue to buy US dollar assets and warned of the impact of a simultaneous sell-down of Treasuries by holders such as China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea.
PBOC adviser Zhou Qiren and member of Monetary Policy committee said that China should solve its domestic inflation problem by allowing the yuan to appreciate more to encourage Chinese people to spend abroad. He noted a perception among Chinese that the yuan is still too cheap.
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