WASHINGTON ? The top US Senate champion of legislation to punish China for its alleged currency manipulation compared officials in Beijing on Wednesday to a "pack of dogs" yelping in anger at the bill.
"Where I come from, they say when you throw a rock at a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one you hit," Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown said in a speech on the Senate floor.
"Of course the Chinese are going to yelp because they don't like this," Brown said of the legislation, which envisions retaliatory duties on Chinese goods if the yuan is found to be unfairly "misaligned."
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