Yuan "De Facto" Backed By Gold…?

• Yuan “De Facto” Backed By Gold…?
  by Bill Holter, https://www.jsmineset.com/
  … This is a very important week. We had an IMF meeting over the weekend and an extremely bland “communique”. I am sure much more went on behind the scenes than this “don’t worry be happy” statement.
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  China has their 29th Communist Congress the 18th and 19th this week. For sure it will contain pomp and circumstance as they install new and old leaders but the highlight will be their “5 year plan” discussions. We may (most probably) not be privy to the true core to the plan and only offered public tidbits for view but we will see.
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  We can look back at the last five years and see China has readied herself to assume leadership for the world in many if not most areas previously lead by the US. They have set up credit facilities, a clearing system alternative to SWIFT, trade deals all over the world especially including the Middle East and other commodity rich areas. (And amassed a huge hoard of gold). They have also cozied up to Russia in many ways including militarily. We have also seen several instances where US Naval vessels may have been compromised technologically. In fact, I understand the Fitzgerald will have new electronics installed by Lockheed Martin. The main supporter of the U.S. dollar (the military) may have been tested publicly and only understood by those watching closely?
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  The point is this, China is “ready”. They can now at this point begin to “pull the trigger”. Whether it is one big trigger or many smaller triggers I do not know. (A betting man would wager many small triggers as the Chinese are a very polite society). I also do not know if one of the smaller triggers creates a domino effect but I suspect so. Do not mistake this, China does have huge leverage and imbedded fraud as does the West. The biggest difference as I have stressed for over two years is China actually created “stuff” whereas the West took their plundered spoils and “ate” them. In other words, China has built out their infrastructure and actually has premade “ghost cities” ready to roll. The U.S. is left with 50-100 year old infrastructure, little manufacturing left and highly unfunded liabilities in pensions. The American party is over…
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