China and Japan, Asia’s two economic giants which are also political rivals, have developed “an unusual consensus” in support of an Asian Currency Unit to reduce their reliance on a weakening dollar, a senior Chinese economist said on Tuesday.
China was originally suspicious of proposals for an ACU because it would be dominated by the yen, Fan Gang said in a speech delivered on his behalf on Tuesday at a conference at the Australian National University in Canberra.

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