Gold is Going to Explode Once China Has Enough

by James Rickards, The Daily Reckoning
Business Insider

China wants to do what the U.S. has done, which is to remain on a paper currency standard but make that currency important enough in world finance and trade to give China leverage over the behavior of other countries.

The best way to do that is to increase its voting power at the IMF and have the yuan included in the IMF basket for determining the value of the special drawing right. Getting those two things requires the approval of the United States because the U.S. has veto power over important changes at the IMF. The U.S. can stand in the way of Chinese ambitions.

China accomplished that last November when the IMF agreed to include the yuan in its basket of currencies.

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