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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t know why we’d be surprised. If you outsource everything to China eventually that will be so much money they get to pick payment methods.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Not really, this has more to do with its size and the fact that they're forcing themselves on a desperate Russia.

[–] ghariksforge 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Trade with Russia is not %50 of China's trade. It's much less than that.

This is de-dollarization in motion.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nobody said it was, but Russia is a major oil supplier to them, it used to be done in US dollars but given the current situation China has been able to force them to use the yuan. Its not like theyre able to pull this off against the major western countries. A lot of their previous yuan based trade was with Hong Kong, North Korea, etc.

[–] ghariksforge 5 points 2 years ago

And now it's %50 of their trade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Sure, the undermining of the most advanced economy in the history of the world only started happening since the US started putting sanctions on Russia. Nothing to do with the preceding decades.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The age of the US of A is over

[–] ghariksforge 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Empires don't fall in a day. It's in motion, but will take time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

We'll try to accelerate it.