U.S.-Chinese relations have become tenser in recent months, with the United States threatening to impose tariffs unless China agrees to revalue its currency and, ideally, allow it to become convertible like the yen or euro. China now follows Japan and Germany as one of the three major economies after the United States. Unlike the other two, it controls its currency’s value, allowing it to decrease the price of its exports and giving it an advantage not only over other exporters to the United States but also over domestic American manufacturers. The same is true in other regions that receive Chinese exports, such as Europe.

What Washington considered tolerable in a small developing economy is intolerable in one of the top five economies. The demand that Beijing raise the value of the yuan, however, poses dramatic challenges for the Chinese, as the ability to control their currency helps drive their exports. The issue is why China insists on controlling its currency, something embedded in the nature of the Chinese economy. A collision with the United States now seems inevitable.

I doubt that number of Chinese tourists (from mainland) would increase dramatically as affordability is not the only issue there. The country's communist government fears an exposure of its citizens to information available outside of the great wall as Google filtering saga has shown.

In 2002, 190,000 Chinese visitors travelled to Australia, representing 4 per cent of all of its inbound tourism. It was the first country to be granted ADS status by China.

...Dylan had been blocked by the Chinese government.
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Permits for musicians to play on the mainland have been tightly controlled since Bjork, the Icelandic singer, enraged the authorities in Shanghai two years ago by shouting out "Tibet! Tibet!" at the end of her song: Declare Independence.

The Culture ministry said Bjork's performance had "hurt the feelings of the Chinese people".