Chinese yuan weakens last week
Xinhua
25 May 2021, 13:30 GMT+10
BEIJING, May 25 (Xinhua) China s yuan weakened against a basket of currencies last week, according to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS). The CFETS yuan exchange rate composite index, which measures the yuan s strength relative to a basket of currencies, lost 0.15 points to 97.19 on May 21, according to the CFETS. The index compares the yuan with the value of 24 currencies, including the U.S. dollar, euro and Japanese yen. Last week also saw an index that measures the yuan against the Bank for International Settlements currency basket down 0.12 points to 101.29. The index measuring the yuan against the Special Drawing Rights basket edged down 0.21 points to 95.95.
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That is, many respondents in a new survey couldn’t name a prominent Asian American person.
In fact, 42% of those polled replied “don’t know.” But two celebrities were named the most: Jackie Chan (with 11% of the responses) and Bruce Lee at 9%.
What do Lee and Chan have in common? They are both martial-arts experts. And note that Lee died in 1973.
Another intriguing result of the poll is that the ”don’t know” answer crossed a broad spectrum of racial lines: White, Black, Hispanic.
What about Andrew Yang for an answer? He only ran for president of the United States just last year. Now, he’s running for mayor of New York, the largest city in the country.