Google May Team Up with NSA To Track Down Culprits

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Ellen Nakashima, Google to enlist NSA to help it ward off cyberattacks.
Washington POst, Feb. 4, 2010.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020304057.html

My comment: That is National Security Agency, which is not National Security
Council. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency
(a cryptologic intelligence agency administered as part of the United States
Department of Defense; created in 1952)


-----------Separately
(1) 专家：美今年可能指认中国操纵货币. VOA Chinese, Feb. 4, 2010.
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/china/China-Dismisses-US-Trade-Threats-20100204-83582337.html
("不过，彼得森国际经济研究所所长弗雷德·伯格斯腾(Fred Bergsten)直接建议美国
把中国列为货币操纵国，以便促进出口。他在《华盛顿邮报》发表文章说，中国及其周
边国家和地区的货币整体被低估了将近25%，如果能调整亚洲国家货币的汇率，美国的
外贸赤字就能削减1000亿美元，并将创造70万个就业机会。")

My comment:
(a) When I read "周边国家," I suspect Taiwan was one. Indeed. See
C. Fred Bergsten, How Best to Boost U.S. Exports. Washington Post, Feb. 3,
2010.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020203301.html?sub=AR

His article mentions China, as well as Taiwan, only once:

"The remaining large misalignment is the undervaluation of at least 25
percent of China's renminbi and the currencies of several important
economies surrounding it (Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan).
Correction of all the Asian undervaluations would cut the global U.S.
deficit by about $100 billion and generate at least 700,000 jobs. If China
continues to block any rise of the renminbi, the administration should label
it a currency manipulator and escalate pressure, including by taking China
to the World Trade Organization.

(b) Central Bank of Taiwan recently does intervene in the market, after a
hiatus of years. But Taiwan's trade surplus with US is little--Taiwan
exports through China--so US will have a hard time finding a pretext vis-a-
vis Taiwan. But see next.

(2) John Pomfret, U.S. officials hopeful China will make concessions on
currency. Washington Post, Feb. 5, 2010.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020404365.html
("[C Fred] Bergsten said other currencies -- in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan
and Malaysia -- are linked to the yuan, so if China revalued, those
countries would follow suit.")

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