* Geithner says it is "China"s choice" to revalue yuan
* Geithner says tellurian liberation "looks utterly clever now"
* China says firmer yuan not key to U.S. traffic imbalance
* Foreign Ministry denies China has ever manipulated yuan
* Economists eye contingent stand in yuan but urge caution
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By David Lawder and Kevin Yao
NEW DELHI/BEIJING, Apr 6 (Reuters) - U.S. TreasurySecretary Timothy Geithner pronounced he was assured that Chinawould see that it is in the own seductiveness to have the yuan moreflexible, whilst Beijing stoutly shielded the banking policy.
Geithner, who pronounced tellurian mercantile liberation "looks quitestrong now," additionally pronounced on Tuesday it was "China"s choice"whether or not it revalues the yuan.
"As I pronounced prior to and I"ll contend it again, but I wish to makesure I am repeating myself, I am assured that China willdecide it"s in their seductiveness to resume the move to a moreflexible sell rate that they began a little years ago andsuspended in the surrounded by of the crisis," he told India"s NDTV.
In Beijing, a Foreign Ministry mouthpiece and twogovernment economists hold out the awaiting of the yuan beingallowed to resume the stand after a 20-month delay but pronounced atseparate briefings that China would ensue with counsel and onits own terms.
"We don"t wish to see the sell rate kept unchanged,"said Zhang Yansheng, director-general of the Institute forInternational Economic Research, a think-tank underneath the NationalDevelopment and Reform Commission, a absolute formulation agency.
Making the yuan some-more stretchable was a severe task, notleast since of a miss of hedging instruments in China anddomestic companies" miss of experience in doing a fluctuatingexchange rate, the economist said.
With U.S. stagnation nearby 10 percent, President BarackObama is underneath vigour from Congress to convince Beijing toallow the yuan to appreciate.
Geithner over the week end motionless to check a inform onwhether China manipulates the currency, pledging to work insteadthrough the Group of twenty economies and alternative multilateralmeetings to press for some-more banking flexibility.
Earlier on Tuesday, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswomansaid China never manipulates the yuan and deserted the argumentthat a firmer yuan would revoke the U.S. traffic necessity withChina -- indicating that Geithner"s preference might not have easedtensions over the issue.
After permitting a three-year stand in the yuan, Beijing inJuly 2008 re-pegged the <yuan CNY=CFXS> nearby 6.83 to the dollarto assistance the exporters go on the tellurian monetary crisis.Critics, together with most U.S. lawmakers, contend the yuan"s valuerepresents an astray funding that costs jobs in most countries.
NOT THE SOLUTION
Jiang Yu, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, pronounced China doesnot try by artful means to get the yuan and called for traffic differences to besettled by dialogue.
"The renminbi sell rate is not the main reason behindthe U.S.-China traffic deficit," Jiang told a unchanging briefing."So naturally, renminbi high regard is not the resolution torebalance Sino-U.S. trade."
Financial markets design Beijing to assent the yuan toresume the stand a little time this year in sequence to top inflationand assistance foster made at home demand.
The yuan rose in offshore brazen markets on Tuesday astraders review the delay of the "manipulation" preference asa pointer of an easing in shared tensions that could buy timefor policymakers in Beijing to reach a consensus.
The marketplace is right away pricing in a 3 percent stand opposite thedollar in a year"s time. [ID:nTOE63503X]
Jiang, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, pronounced China wouldkeep perfecting the "managed floating sell rate" but wouldstick to the 3 beliefs it has regularly followed: any changemust be at Beijing"s initiative, the demeanour of the shift mustbe controlled, and it contingency be gradual.
"We will go on to pull brazen remodel of the exchangerate arrangement mechanism. The citation will not change," shesaid.
BALANCED GROWTH
Geithner, in comments after meetings with India"s PrimeMinister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee,said he would press for some-more offset expansion formed some-more ondomestic consumption, not exports.
"We"re operative with countries around the universe to have surethere is a turn personification margin globally so that the companies,as they contest globally, are competing on a satisfactory basis. That"sthe ubiquitous needed and it goes over China," he told theNDTV TV channel.
In the arise of last Friday"s U.S. Labor Department reportshowing the U.S. economy grew at the fastest shave in threeyears, Geithner voiced certainty in tellurian recovery.
"I think the tellurian liberation looks utterly clever now. It"smuch stronger than it was even 3 months ago. There"s muchbroader certainty about the sustainability," Geithner said.
He pronounced the luck of a stand in drop retrogression was "muchmuch reduce than it was," but he combined that there was a risk thatfiscal impulse is cold as well quickly, throwing it off track. (Writing by Tony Munroe and Alan Wheatley)
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