China's Central Bank's decision on July 21 to allow the renminbi to float in a +/-0.3% range per trading day against the US dollar was not a complete surprise -although the timing was, because such action had been widely tipped for the end of the year. International pressure, though (especially from the US), had been intensifying, as the country's trading surpluses with the rest of the world had grown to record levels.
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