TOKYO — Enter German Chancellor Friedrich Merz as the latest to suggest a Plaza Accord 2.0 is needed to knock China’s export competitiveness down to size. Merz argues the yuan is 30% undervalued, accuses Beijing of “flooding global markets” with artificially cheap goods and warns that its state-subsidized overcapacity is destabilizing an already fragile world economy. […]
Plaza Accord 2.0 talk won’t fix anybody’s China problem
German leader Merz’s call for a forced revaluation of the yuan misses the point that China isn’t Japan and 2026 isn’t 1985
