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Wikileaks confirms China's leverage

December 15th, 2010
By: Kate Bachman

No doubt the recent Wikileaks leaks revealed too much. It will remain to be seen whether or how severely Julian Assange will be prosecuted.

However, one of the revelations pivoted around what is most likely the primary—and heretofore publicly unspoken—reason why the U.S. has not been more forceful with China regarding its currency manipulation, intellectual property theft, and tariffs which have weakened the U.S. manufacturing segment's ability to compete against cheapened Chinese imports.

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