| ▲ | Arubis 10 hours ago | |
China probably has the fiscal firepower to replace Eurodollars, but while their financial system remains split between "internally used currency" and "currency for everyone else" and while external investment is treated with deep suspicion and harsh rules, it would be limited to liquidity and exchange purposes. Nobody wants to hold a currency like the yuan over an appreciable period of time. That might be enough; that confers a lot of power and influence to the currency issuer. But definitely different ground than US Treasuries cover. Historically this is also where we'd insert something into the conversation about who gets to hold the moral high ground, but as you've noted, that's something the current US administration has abandoned entirely. | ||
| ▲ | stickfigure 10 hours ago | parent [-] | |
China is actively broadcasting its plans to start the next Russia/Ukraine conflict. There is no moral high ground there. | ||