strength of the economy and the role played by Malaysia in the global economy,” he said in a statement here.

Earlier this week the US Treasury, in a semi-annual report to Congress, said it reviewed the policies of an expanded set of 21 major US trading partners and found that nine required close attention due to currency practices.

Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam were new additions to the watch list, which also includes China, Germany, Japan and South Korea. India and Switzerland were removed from the list of countries under extra scrutiny.

The US Treasury’s three criteria for determining whether a country can be labelled a currency manipulator previously were a significant trade surplus with the United States, a sizeable current account surplus and evidence of one-sided, persistent currency intervention.

Limtaken seriously at the outset of the campaign, sitting in the shadow of the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica, awaiting his chance to take his message to a global audience.

His remarks to a Vatican conference celebrating the 25th anniversary of an encyclical by Pope John Paul II to mark the end of the Cold War were brief — he traveled more than 4,000 miles and spoke for no more than 15 minutes on Friday. When Sanders plodded out of Perugino’s Gate afterward with his wife, Jane, and Columbia professor-slash-campaign adviser Jeffrey Sachs, tourists were crowded around windows in buildings across the street just to get a glimpse of the underdog American presidential candidate, having been elbowed aside by a teeming mass of cameras and reporters.

As Sanders waded