China may not welcome the attention that has been bestowed on the question of the renminbi exchange rate in recent months, but it is a symptom of the fact that the country has emerged as a significant force in the global economy. That attention is not going to go away. China must learn to live with its new role, just as the rest of the world has to learn to live with an emergent China. It is an honor to have this opportunity of contributing to the process of thinking through what that implies.