March 11 (Bloomberg) — Frederic Neumann, an economist at HSBC Holdings Plc, talks with Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu about Chinese inflation and currency policy. China's consumer prices reached a 16-month high, climbing 2.7 percent in February from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics said in Beijing today. Production rose 20.7 percent in the first two months of 2010, the most in more than five years. Neumann speaks from Hong Kong. (Source: Bloomberg)