
"China's central bank has called for a new global reserve currency run by the International Monetary Fund to replace the US dollar."
"Mr Zhou said the primacy of the US currency in the financial system had led to increasingly frequent crises since the collapse in the early 1970s of the system of fixed exchange rates."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7960620.stm
China is the biggest holder of dollar assets in the world and is the fourth biggest economy in the world behind the EU, US and Japan (and it won't be long until it's bigger than all three of these). This is it. The pretender taking the throne. This could be China ready to throw their weight around on the global stage by shaking up the global financial system. There may be very real consequences for us on the back of decisions made in a walled communist party compound adjoining an ancient temple in the centre of Beijing. Will it be for the better or worse? Are we scared of China or willing to embrace them? Do we think they will be pragmatic, benevolent, malevolent, self-serving, open?
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