China's Pirates, Currency, and Class

David Leonhardt has an interesting piece that asks whether currency values should still be an important issue between the United States and China, suggesting that China's appropriation of U.S. technology and intellectual products should be a more important issue. There is an important class aspect to this question that the piece overlooks.

From the standpoint of manufacturing workers and those whose wages might be affected by an increased demand for manufacturing workers (e.g. those without c...