This is a mystery.

You would think that the: 
    value of a nations's currency = (f) its current account surpluses

    value of a nation's currency = (f) is manufacturing exports

    value of a nation's currency = (f) is industrial strength
    value of a nation's currency = (f) rate of employment
    value of a nation's currency = (f) number of its free trade treaties

But to find that:

    http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-03/08/c_136110453.htm

you have to wonder how the blazes an interest hike speaks to an increase in the economic strength of a given nation when all the above values are in a shaky state?

Just a tick up here and a tick up there is not really "IT"!

And this is what currency manipulation is all about.

The currency of other nations will now mystically be of less value than the privileged one.  If this is so, does it really make any sense on the ground.

In the end, the truth will out.

What the American citizenry wants is honest and truth management of their fiduciary affairs.

What they want is what is real. Not fiddling and diddling with the numbers.