WASHINGTON – U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton warned Tuesday she would take retaliatory action against Japan and China if she wins the White House, saying the two nations have intentionally weakened their currencies to aid exporters.
“China, Japan and other Asian economies kept their goods artificially cheap for years by holding down the value of their currencies,” Clinton said in a column published in the daily Portland Press Herald in Maine.
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