Timothy Adams Quotes

"China's current account surplus is now a major component of global imbalances, and its continuation risks undermining support for the open trade policies which have contributed so much to China's development. China is now simply too large to rely on export-led growth to pick up the slack when other sources of growth falter."

"I fear for my safety, so I'm requesting to be sent (where) my life isn't jeopardize(d)."

"We have been very supportive of the reforming of the exchange-rate regime, but implied in that support is taking them at their word that over time they'll achieve greater flexibility and an exchange rate that increasingly reflects underlying supply and demand,"

"We're going to give them the benefit of the doubt that they will do what they say they are going to do. We would just urge them to undertake a quicker pace of reform."