Argentina's use of Chinese yuan is soaring as dollars run short, and a top US manufacturer may join the trend
Argentina's use of Chinese yuan is soaring as dollars run short, and a top US manufacturer may join the trend
For the record, this has more to do with Argentine financial mismanagement and China’s “expansive” fiscal policy than with the dedollarization that the headline is trying to imply.
7We (I'm from Argentina) have not enough dollars to pay the IMF loan and had a bunch of yuans in reserve China lend us to trade with them, a 'swap' as I heard they call it.
What's worrying is that yuans have a secret loan interest, probably quite a high rate. Don't ask were the IMF loan money went, for sure it wasn't spent on me.
7Brazilian neighbour here, how has this change impacted the old issues with inflation? I remember there always being lots of complaints from colleagues employed over there about that and it also getting exploited a lot by our tourists, but the BRL to ARS exchange rate doesn't seem to have changed much.
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I mean, 10 years ago China would not have been an option, just more IMF loans. Seems to fit the label of dedollarization perfectly.
5The reality is that US raising rates creates problems for countries like Argentina which makes repaying their foreign debt more expensive. In the end it, the drive for dedollarization is that it provides countries with a way out of the exploitative credit system US created via IMF and the dollar hegemony.
0Mismanagement? Fuckk, you yanks fuck us up through the IMF. We are debt trapped in another of the US economic games. It IS related to dedolarisation because the dolar as the internstional currency causes this type of issues in explouted nations. There is a reason why us and my Brasilian brothers are doing it, us being the two biggest economies in Southamerica.
-2Just more tankie posts and headlines for the tankie always posting here :)
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-4responsibly manage your currency
I mean...
2Sure. The wild fluctuations in value and the lack of liquidity are just minor issues that anyone running a billion-dollar industrial operation should be able to overcome easily.
-2The fees are way way way more expensive with bitcoin than real money also. This guy is a troll or deluded.
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