Obama undercuts Clinton on China’s currency

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One of the rare areas of agreement between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is that the U.S. must fight back hard against China’s manipulation of its currency.

But it is likely to be a much more awkward issue for Clinton in the fall, because the Obama administration’s position is that China doesn’t manipulate its currency. The Democratic front-runner will have to distance herself from Obama and the establishment Democratic position on the issue even though she served as secretary of state.

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