The u. S. Has labeled china a currency manipulator cranking up trade tensions between the worlds 2 biggest economies the decisions rattled investors on International Stock markets trumps decision follows the sharp weakening of chinas you one currency which breached the closely watched barrier of 7 against the dollar yesterday the u. S. Treasury said it labeled chinas current china a currency manipulator because it had devalued its currency quote to gain an unfair competitive advantage in the worst sell of of the year the dow jones lost close to 3 percent on monday shanghai composite shed 2. 4 percent asian markets later had some of the losses. Lets go straight to our Financial Markets correspondent bartz who is in frankfurt only it seems like the trade war has entered a new round and in new arena tell us what does it mean when the u. S. Calls a country a currency manipulator. Well when you manipulate your currency youre doing that in order to get an advantage in trade and donald trump