Días grises para
el Imperio del Caos. Días en los que mejor haría en quedarse en la cama. Sin
tener que asistir a las dolorosas consecuencias de errores pasados. Por
ejemplo, éste que señala Simon Black en una nota reciente publicada en
Sovereign Man (http://www.sovereignman.com/articles):
Título: Et tu,
Britain? United Kingdom to join China in the anti-dollar alliance
Texto: Late
yesterday, the government of the United Kingdom announced that they would be
applying to join the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank… as a
founding member.
This is huge.
Right now, the
United States dominates the global financial system.
But after years
of endless wars, spying, debt, money printing, bailouts, and insane
regulations, the rest of the world has had enough. And they’re looking for an
alternative.
China is coming
up with an answer.
The
soon-to-be-live Chinese International Payment System (CIPS) will provide a way
for banks to transfer funds to one another without having to use the US banking
system… or the US dollar.
China is also the
ringleader behind both the BRICS development bank (called the New Development
Bank, or NDB) as well as the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
Both of these are
multilateral development banks that aim to end the dominance of the
western-controlled World Bank and IMF.
NDB includes all
the BRICS nations– Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
Founding members
of the AIIB include China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, etc. They’re
typically all rapidly growing and/or resource-rich developing nations.
New Zealand was
the first western nation to join AIIB back in October. And yesterday afternoon,
Britain announced its intention to become the second.
(Of course in the
UK’s eyes they’re the first since New Zealand still belongs to the Queen!)
This is a
massive, embarrassing blow to the United States, and to the future of the US
dollar.
It’s pretty
obvious when you look at the dozens of signatories to the NDB and AIIB charter
documents: the rest of the world is sick and tired of the United States
dominating the global financial system.
And by putting
these new development banks and alternative payment systems together, they’re
actually doing something about it.
Even America’s
own allies have supported this anti-dollar movement.
Last summer the
French Finance Minister explained to reporters how completely unnecessary it
was for a European aircraft manufacturer to sell jets to European airlines in
US dollars (instead of euros).
He also slammed
the US government for arrogantly fining French bank BNP a whopping $9 billion
for doing business with countries that the US doesn’t like.
(Side note: one
of the ‘evil’ countries BNP did business with was Cuba, and they were heavily
punished for this, even though BNP broke no law in France. But now all of a
sudden the US and Cuba are buddy-buddy again. Is BNP going to get a refund?)
His conclusion?
It’s time for a ‘rebalancing’ of the global financial system away from the US
dollar. Other political allies of the United States have echoed similar
sentiment.
But now we can
see words are turning into action.
Britain might be
too polite to tell the US straight up– “Look, you have $18.1 trillion in
official debt, you have $42 trillion in unfunded liabilities, and you’re kind
of a dick. I’m dumping you.”
So instead
they’re going with the “it’s not you, it’s me” approach.
But to anyone
paying attention, it’s pretty obvious where this trend is going.
It won’t be long
before other western nations jump on the anti-dollar bandwagon with action and
not just words.
Bottom line: this
isn’t theory or conjecture anymore. Every shred of objective evidence suggests
that the dollar’s dominance is coming to an end.
It’s happening.
Time to plan for it.
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