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Its new report concludes that the yuan is undervalued by about 16%. That is the biggest misalignment since 2011, when a similar calculation suggested an undervaluation of 23%. The root of the problem ...

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Y OU WOULD have thought that, after four bloody years, a war which neither side can win would have burnt itself out. But not the war in Ukraine. And the blame lies with one man.