Chinese want US bonds issued in yuan rather than dollars

reply to post by disgustedbyhumanity

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Have you seen the US political whores doing anything but bending over to the Chinese government? I tell you what our nation leaders don't dare to say not to China.

No star/flag for you my friend. The Chinese are being nice... they can drop the hammer any time they like. Just wait until their further agendas rise to the surface and see what kind of collective bargaining wait... forceful bargaining strategies come about. The circulatory system of the dollar is in a state of shock. Failure was imminent if it wasn't for Nobama instituting trillions of dollars to allow our enormously giant traitor companies to hobble along. We've gone backwards and we're gonna pay.

reply to post by disgustedbyhumanity

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You mean by not allowing their currency to free float and become subject to attack as in Argentina and in Russia, they are not "playing fair"?

I hope you can see that the US dollar currently has an unfair advantage over other currencies. It's been that way since Bretton Woods in '44.

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Thanks for the link Marg. I'm trying to find another article confirming the Oil Bourse. Wiki just use the one you already cited above.



[edit on 9/6/09 by ConspiracyNut23]

reply to post by ConspiracyNut23

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That is ok, you know US could have been able to avoid the damage that China has done to our economy if our leaders were smart enough to sit through history class and take upon themselves to read the art of war.

But with the state of affairs of US education no wonder we have so many morons in our government.

And that is a joke just to make it sound nice.

But every time our good for nothing politicians goes to China they are doing nothing but kissing Chinas butt and begging them to keep buying our debt.

The US dollars has enjoyed for many years the only thing that no other currency had been able to achieved it has remained the same through the years against any adversities.

But the greed of our politicians and the irresponsible spending and borrowing are eroding our dollars strength over the world and what they do to fix the problem? they keep borrowing and spending like drunken sailors.

Actually when the Euro came to be that's when the dollars started to lose its hold.

But that is another thread and another story.

reply to post by ConspiracyNut23

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You know, China is doing trading swaps in Yuan right now with Venezuela & Russia for oil.

By doing so, they bypass the the Petro Dollar Recycling system all together!

Iranian Oil Bourse is selling oil to China in Euro & Yen, also bypassing the dollar.

The dollar hegemony, the privileges and advantages of holding the dollar as a reserve currency since the most unfair 1944 Bretton Woods - could soon be over!

Well! this is sad news for our American friends! but quite good news for the rest of the world!

Meanwhile, America is still very important for the stability in some parts of the world, but without money the USA can't keep paying for its military expenses anymore!

And when that is happening, then what? - WAR? or will it be like when the Soviet Union went default on it self? - will it happen quietly?




[edit on 9-6-2009 by Chevalerous]

Not at all. America is the world's largest collection of consumers, and we've already seen how bad financials in America can have an instant and devastating effect on the entire world financial stage.

Not to mention: World's largest, most advanced military + threat of extinction = (well, I think anyone can do the math here).... Nobody wants to see that equation completed...

For ALL of our sakes, it's in everyone's far greater interests to keep the US viable. In addition, China may own the majority of US debt, but at the same time, the US is China's biggest customer. China would be biting the hand that feeds it, as the US would be doing in any actions against China. There is a symbiotic relationship there, and both nations' best interests are served in sustaining that....

You say no way they can get it through? They are talking about Chinese banks right? Why can't they issue their own debt in their own currency?

As for their currency being manipulated - well, I was going to say it is like the pot calling the kettle black .. but that's a total euphemism, the $US is THE manipulated currency - it is totally BASED on manipulation and nothing else.

The Chinese were simply trying to devalue their own currency because the $US was falling like a brick (for good reasons) so they could maintain their export strength. The amount of their 'manipulation' is not even worth mentioning in comparison to the $US which is a totally ficticious currency based only on military power and coercion - not on the fundamentals of manufacturing, commodities and effective infrastructure.

The $US is basically worth nothing - because all your manufacturing is dead, and the US has a negative balance of trade which includes commodities. On what is the US dollar based? Nothing tangible - and everyone is waking up that the US is over extended militarily - the dollar exodus began a while ago.

Gold and silver manipulation, and coercing other countries to participate in the 'stimulus' idea is the only thing propping the dollar up still. Some countries simply won't destroy their currency to prop up the dollar, and the manipulation of gold and silver should reach a limit at some point.

I think the Fed is simply using a lot of stimulus money at the moment to put out gold and silver paper - they push the price down by over printing gold and silver futures - then they let the price go up near delivery time. So people cash in the paper for Fed reserve notes instead of the physical metal - it costs money, but not as much as would be lost if gold and silver went to the prices they should be at.

Of course that cash going directly into the system is fueling inflation and NOT creating any useful manufacturing or jobs - what it is doing is raising the pressure on gold and silver like a pressure cooker - when the top comes off the $US will plummet like a brick and people will be screaming for the Amero to save them.

[edit on 9-6-2009 by Amagnon]

Well my friend! you need to read up on the latest developments then!

China could invest all this money in China to raise their standard of living and become consumers themselves, and let the Asian union grow with consumers in the Asian market!

There are serious talks inside of China to cut the American consumers off! and instead focus to the growing Asian markets and the rest of the world!

300.000.000 consumers is easy to replace just within Asia!

Add to this, cheaper consumer goods to the worlds biggest market in the EU with 500.000.000 potential consumers if we get the same cheap prices on goods as you got in the US!

Then for fun we can also add in the rest of the BRIC countries like India, Brazil, Russia that are doing trading swaps with China right now! If they get the same low good prices on consumer products you have at least a total of 1 billion new consumers to Chinas manufacturing products to replace the 300.000.000 American consumers!

And no! you can't threaten the whole world with arms anymore! those days are over! - and if some crazy politicians or the US military would try?!

They would be crushed by a united world through financial and economical means into submission!

You can never win a world war against the whole united world!

Be humble!


[edit on 9-6-2009 by Chevalerous]

reply to post by Chevalerous

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China is doing what America did before and after the great depression, they prop an elite class and now they are allowing their servants (I mean citizens) to be part of that revolution, but all under the control of a communist leadership. But they have a great advantage, they have learned from the greatest of all and they will try to avoid the same mistakes that the greatest of all had made.

reply to post by Gazrok

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Sorry,but europe has overtaken america in the consumer department and its still expanding and will keep expanding.Europe is an economic powerhouse ie largest in the world.Any country would be glad to have europeans buying their products..."cough" the chinese.They could ditch America and still be fine contrary to popular belief.Along with the growing asian markets....America is just the fat guy that is making the boat sink..except he has an awfully large bit of power behind all that fat.Course you wont use it,because with the flick of a pen London could bankrupt you...not much use having such a large military when you cant afford to power it.

reply to post by Solomons

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I believe it, by the time China decide to trash the US is because they already have the support of "other" trading partners in the world.

They have been expanding while America has been wagging wars in the middle east, from South America to Africa and back.

Yes exactly marge!

But I think it's foolish to underestimate a civilization with written records dating back 4,000 years, and it's fascinating that Sun Tzu wrote Art of War 2400 years ago which means that the Chinese philosophy is light years ahead of ours here in the western world.

You can't fool these people easy! they know every trick in the book of tricks!

China has been a rather peaceful civilization through history, compared to other civilizations!

China is the next world empire, It's their turn now! - and hopefully they chose a more peaceful path within the new world order?

reply to post by Chevalerous

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This is going to sound like I am full of it, but to tell you the truth, two years ago when this site used to have their Politics forum I used to tell people that China was going to fight the US, everybody thought that is was all about war, but no such thing they know that a war is not the smart way to go, the economic war is a more easy way to eliminated the enemy in todays global markets, and for anybody that has at least a littler bit of knowleadge of the Art of War would understood that.

Many used to think that I was crazy that this was not truth that China was still in the meddle ages and collecting rice in swamps and that US was invencible.

Guess what, those that knew what was going on supported my views and opinions of the nations economy downfall of consumerism and the raise of the China empire.

That was only two years ago, it didn't look long for China to get to this point actually they have done it quite fast.

But America was too busy fighting wars to even notice what was going on under our own noses.

Anybody that followed the markets knew that the picture of health and wealth backed by Bush word of we have a solid economy was nothing than a mirage.



[edit on 9-6-2009 by marg6043]

Well, aside from the 1,828 major recorded famines in Chinese history, you may be on to something there...

Or, ever read anything about the An Shi Rebellion of the 750s? With a death toll estimated around 36 million, it easily had the highest corpse count in absolute numbers of any global event until World War II....and that was back in the 8th century. In relative terms, the stats from that little freakshow (personally, I've always enjoyed the rather Baron-Harkonnen-esqe nature of An Lushan himself, in a dark sort of way) are even starker...a 75% death toll that made the European Black Death's 33% depopulation event look like a mere demographic burp. And of course there are horrors like the Great Leap Forward, well within living memory...that one had a death toll somewhere between 20 and 43 million; it appears nobody really quite wants to know for sure, you see.

But yeah, sure, China...land of peace...bwhahahaha. Not to be rude but I couldn't resist those barbs...China has known great periods of peace perhaps longer than any Europe has experienced, and its record regarding external conflicts with other global great powers (unfortunate 19th century entanglements aside) is certainly enviable...but at the same time, nobody knows how to shake it up quite like the Chinese. Their history is full of a number particularly disturbing internal disequibrium events that have the dubious honor of outstripping much of Western history in bredth, depth, and ferocity.




[edit on 6/9/09 by silent thunder]

Now perhaps car sales isn't everything but whatever the Chinese government is doing it's definetely stimulating this particular market.



I have always maintained that the Chinese government can use their vast volumes of dollar reserves to stimulate their local markets if their export market finally started going under and i think this might very well be some indications that they may in fact be willing to protect and stimulate their consumer markets by large cash infusions.

Stellar

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reply to post by silent thunder

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China isolationism is what have kept China pretty safe within their boundaries, but history tells that peaceful they are not when challenged they will retaliate before was with might now is with the same tools that has made other nations successful economically.

People underestimate China but a nation of fools they are not.

Another interesting piece along similar lines:




More at source (worth a look IMHO):
news.goldseek.com...

What a profoundly vacuous post - your first point , simply links to a quote on wiki which which is in itself a link to another wiki page with nothing more about this ludicrous claim. Rather the page goes on to document the issues of famine in the white west -

The rest of your post then banters on about issues within China, the greatest historical nation in history - as though this discredited them - not withstanding the genocide of the whites from Australia, through Africa, the Americas etc -

I studied Chinese for over a decade, travelled there before capitalisation and prior to the massacre of 1989 - they are an incredible nation beyond the US in so many ways it is beyond imagination.

Your post smacked of quick internet checks on things to discredit them with - and only serves to highlight your profound lack of understanding of the most significant nation on earth historically and culturally.

Sorry but not sure what you are even posting.

Who are you - you are the first person to come onto ATS with an ounce of knowledge or understanding - I would congratulate and laud your presence if I did not cherish my unique status amongst these mere mortals -

See how long you last with the incessant inanities -

Good lord...are you denying the validity of the death tolls in the events I pointed out?
我想你那样不对.

I picked wiki because it was the first link that came up, but all of my statements are well-known historical facts that no serious scholar would debate. Give me a readily accessible source you trust and I'll find you similar figures...do you trust the Encylopedia Britanica? Look up the death tolls for the An Lushan event or the Great Leap Forward. You won't find vastly different figures, I assure you.

These are not controversial points, you know. You may have studied Chinese for over a decade, but appparently you are a bit rusty on your history.

And as for the dark history of the West, nowhere do I deny the events you mention. But that is not the topic of our thread, my friend. If you'd like to discuss the historical horrors of the west, by all means start another thread along those lines and I'm sure you can find plenty of sad statistics that I won't argue with. However, in this case, I was responding to a specific post claiming that China had a "more peaceful history" than elsewhere. I scattered a few well-known examples to demonstrate otherwise. I think Chinese death-counts in the tens of millions speak for themselves in rebutting such a claim, don't you?

One more thing; I also don't appreciate the rather personal tone of your post. Let's keep it friendly, 这样行吗?



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