{"id":4922,"date":"2010-03-29T15:46:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T20:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4922"},"modified":"2011-01-20T15:11:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T20:11:32","slug":"must-china-be-the-scapegoat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/03\/29\/must-china-be-the-scapegoat\/","title":{"rendered":"Must China be the scapegoat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4923\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/03\/Chinese-currency-150x150.gif\" alt=\"Chinese currency\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>In the biggest bipartisan display since Obama took office, 90 Democrats and 40 Republicans wrote a the Treasury and Commerce secretaries demanding that China appreciate its currency or face a financial duty.\u00a0 But, as international relations Professor <a title=\"Kevin Gallagher\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/alphabetical\/gallagher\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Gallagher <\/a>explains in a Politico <a title=\"commentary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/arena\/perm\/Kevin_P__Gallagher_1F1C90F8-A201-419A-944A-0F10617019A5.html\" target=\"_blank\">commentary<\/a>, appreciating the Chinese currency still won&#8217;t regain lost U.S. jobs.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Rather than beat on the Chinese we should borrow from the China playbook &#8230; They&#8217;ve become the biggest producer of solar power on the planet &#8230; Wouldn&#8217;t it be better to put together a bipartisan coalition for a low-oil import economy?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Kevin Gallagher, 617-353-9348, <a href=\"mailto:kpg@bu.edu\">kpg@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the biggest bipartisan display since Obama took office, 90 Democrats and 40 Republicans wrote a the Treasury and Commerce secretaries demanding that China appreciate its currency or face a financial duty.\u00a0 But, as international relations Professor Kevin Gallagher explains in a Politico commentary, appreciating the Chinese currency still won&#8217;t regain lost U.S. jobs. &#8220;Rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2479,2555,2554],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4922"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7827,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4922\/revisions\/7827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}