RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Our business news starts with the U.S. Treasury secretary in China.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Henry Paulson is in Beijing today. The Treasury secretary is in China to lobby officials to end their controversial currency controls. Paulson is under increasing pressure from congress to make progress in the issue.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, host: Many in the U.S. say China keeps its currency, the Yuan, artificially weak. That adds to the U.S. trade deficit with China.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: And let's talk about a struggling U.S. company. The chief executive of Daimler Chrysler still will not reveal anything about his plans for his struggling North American unit, Chrysler. But the New York Times reports Dieter Zetsche saying it would be difficult to break up the company, meaning to sell off individual brands like Jeep, because of a production system that binds the various brands together.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: Analysts are talking about GM as a possible buyer of Chrysler. Private investment firms have also reportedly expressed interest in busying Daimler's U.S. division.
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is in Beijing, lobbying officials to strengthen China's currency and thus cut the U.S. trade deficit with China. And will Daimler-Chrysler sell Chrysler? The New York Times reports that Daimler-Chrysler's chief executive says it would be difficult to sell off individual brands (such as Jeep) because of Chrysler's production system.