Indian refiners have also used China’s currency to settle some of their Russian oil purchases.

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    India buying oil with Yuan.

    UAE threatening a switch to Yuan.

    The bricks are starting to fall, and it’s not going to be a graceful collapse.

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    It could have been EUR, Bitcoin, Yen or any other form of money. Recent Trump actions have not been very kind to the dollar’s dominance.

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    Won’t this strengthen the Yuan?
    I thought it was being kept artificially devalued by the chinese government to keep exporting cheaper goods. If exports go down, unemployment goes up which may cause some…

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    social unrest

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    There have been rumours of this happening since tRump’s first term, and it seems it’s slowly coming to pass.