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MARCH 9, 2015 bloombergview.com

CHINA The Editors: "China's second interest-rate cut in three months has raised fears that the government is trying to devalue the yuan to give its exports an unfair boost -- an understandable suspicion, given Beijing's history of manipulating its currency. This time, though, lower interest rates and a moderately weaker yuan make sense not just for China but for the rest of the world as well." Read more... POLITICS Albert R. Hunt: "Congressional Republicans are off to an inauspicious start in their first two months in control of both chambers. Instead of showing they're capable of governing, a group of House hard-liners tried to make the killing of President Barack Obama's liberalized rules for undocumented immigrants a condition for funding the Department of Homeland Security." Read more... Sam Tanenhaus: "Will the Republican Party return to its Midwestern roots? Until recently, the possibility seemed remote, thanks to the shift of power to the South and the Sun Belt. But with Scott Walker's rise in the 2016 presidential contest, it's worth asking: What is left of Midwest in 21st-century Republicanism?" Read more... Margaret Carlson: "Presidential hopefuls Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Chris Christie are working the Republican big-money circuit of Palm Beach, the Upper East Side of Manhattan and Aspen. ... Meanwhile, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is on a different journey. He's concentrating on the voters who carried him to victory in the Iowa caucuses and seven other nomination contests in 2008." Read more... LATIN AMERICA Mac Margolis: "South American foreign ministers gathered in Caracas on March 6 to address the poisoned relations between Venezuela's government and its opposition, a rolling political crisis that has roiled the Venezuelan streets and besieged President Nicolas Maduro. The ministers' mission -- to 'depolarize Venezuela,' according to Ernesto Samper, secretary general of the Union of South American Nations -- is a noble one. But don't hold your breath." Read more... INDIA Chandrahas Choudhury: "India's new government has started a war it cannot win over 'India's Daughter,' a documentary by the British filmmaker Leslee Udwin about the horrific gang rape of a student in New Delhi in December 2012." Read more...