The old lady tilted her head back and closed her eyes. Sheng Chuncheng used the middle fingers of both hands to massage the left and right sides of the upper and lower lips along the perimeter of the mouth. Then she used the middle fingers and ring finger pulps of both hands to make spirals from the inside to the outside of the cheeks.
shape massage.
After massaging her face, Sheng Chuncheng was about to massage Teacher Zheng's head. Her cell phone rang again. Sheng Chuncheng stopped. The old lady said sorry, then she took the cell phone next to her and answered the call.
From the faint voice, Sheng Chuncheng could tell that it was still the same voice from before. The old lady muttered impatiently, "Why aren't you finished yet?", but then she immediately said:
"Okay, you tell me, I'll listen."
The other party was talking on the phone. The old lady shook her head and nodded. After a while, she said:
"It's not that the financial means you mentioned will not be used by the old American, but they are all tricks that can kill a thousand enemies and cause a loss of eight hundred, or even a thousand or two hundred. He must weigh it carefully."
The old lady shook her head: "Impossible, they can't and don't dare to attack our foreign exchange reserves. Let me do a simple calculation for you. Our foreign exchange reserves are more than 320 billion US dollars, but you know,
How much investment does the United States have in our domestic entities, various corporate bonds, venture capital, and Chinese concept stocks? Almost six trillion US dollars.
"If you freeze my foreign exchange reserves, then both parties are completely at odds. Well, you will be in the first year of junior high school and I will be in the fifteenth year. If you are unkind and I am unjust, I will also freeze all these assets. Whoever loses the most
, these people who have been frozen are all financial backers of American politicians. You know that Wang is very tyrannical towards Hong Kong, so why are you so afraid of Macau? There is no National Security Law in Macau?
"There is a reason. The boss of the Sands Group is a financial backer who understands the king. If he understands the king, he would not dare to offend him. The calculations in these people's minds are very clear."
"What, what did you say?"
Teacher Zheng asked: "Kick our banks out of the Swift system? Are you talking nonsense? Swift also accepts euros and RMB. We are still the largest trading nation in more than 110 countries. With such a large volume, the United States and the United States will not do it with us."
Business, everyone else will be unlucky? Swift is not the old American who can only cover the sky with one hand. The most it can do is suspend settlement in US dollars. This has to be the most extreme situation.
"Yes, I said that we have cards, not that we don't have cards. There are three ways to deal with this extreme situation. One is to speed up the internationalization of the RMB, but this is a double-edged sword. Speed up the internationalization, and you will
The capital account has to be opened, and this needs to be done very carefully.
"There is another step to speed up the digital currency. The last one, and what I think is the most promising, is that we should take the lead in launching Asia's own currency, let's call it the Asian dollar. The Asian dollar can be different from the US dollar and the euro.
If it is made into a sovereign currency, that is, if you join the Asian dollar circle, your weight in the Asian dollar will correspond to your domestic GDP. In this way, we will have the leadership.
"The countries that have joined, such as Russia, energy powers in the Middle East, and manufacturing countries like us and Southeast Asia, I said that financial hegemony, energy and manufacturing can also become hegemons. If so many countries participate in the Asian Dollar,
The portion size is definitely not light.
"Of course, of course, it goes without saying that the difficulty will definitely be great, and there will definitely be resistance, which is not small, but we need to do it. It depends on people. Southeast Asia will never forget that during the Asian financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund and
The World Bank, how ugly it is, how it squeezed them, including South Korea, they also know how Samsung was forced to give up its equity at that time.
"History has memories, and we have to stir up their memories, as well as those oil-producing countries in the Middle East. Do you think their assets are US dollars and euros, and they feel at ease? Can they sleep well at night? Old Americans
The big sticks of human rights and democracy are being waved around the world, but why have they been put away when it comes to the Middle East? They have changed their tone of voice.
"They are leaving a backdoor, that is, a handle, so that when they need it, they can use democracy and human rights as an excuse to take possession of the assets of these countries in the Middle East. Those people in the Middle East are not fools. They
Can't you see this clearly?
"If there is an Asian dollar that they participate in, do you think they will exchange their US dollar and euro assets into the Asian dollar? Will the petrodollar one day become the petro-Asian dollar? Look further and have a bigger picture.
, there is much to be done, the world has entered the Asian century, we must lead Asia and go its own way, and don’t be afraid to stand out.”
Put down the phone and continue the massage, starting with the head massage now. It happens like this every time. At this time, the old lady likes to start massaging while talking to Sheng Chuncheng.
Sheng Chuncheng asked: "Teacher Zheng, what is swift? When I listen to the radio, I always hear this word. It seems very fashionable, advanced and mysterious."
Teacher Zheng laughed and said to Sheng Chuncheng: "Swift is not that mysterious. To put it bluntly, it is just a messaging system. For example, if someone wants to remit a sum of money in China to someone in the United States, he has completed the procedures at the bank here.
, the bank will send an instruction and documents to the corresponding bank in the United States, and the money will be paid there, without waiting for your money to actually arrive in the United States.
"Because the actual arrival of the money has to go through exchanges between banks. Everyone is in this system and has signed the agreement. No one will default on the debt, so everyone defaults to seeing a Swift command.
Get the money and let the business continue.
"To put it in layman's terms, Swift is like WeChat. It mainly transmits information. But it doesn't mean that without WeChat, there is no way to communicate. You can also use text messages, don't you think? Nowadays, everyone uses WeChat because they all use WeChat.
I feel that using WeChat is more convenient than text messaging, and the same is true for Swift. There is also a process of gradual acceptance by everyone. Once everyone accepts it, it becomes a mainstream system."
Sheng Chuncheng listened and seemed to understand, but not completely. He asked:
"Then I heard on the radio, how can the Americans use this to sanction us?"
"That's a fallacy. The person who said it didn't understand it at all, and they are just saying what others say." Teacher Zheng said, "Swift is just a messaging system, not an exchange system. How can it be sanctioned? To achieve the purpose of sanctions, it must go through a settlement bank.
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"The cross-border settlement of U.S. dollars around the world must go through Chips, the New York Clearing House interbank payment system. The Americans control Chips. If they stop your clearing, you will have no way to exchange U.S. dollars. Chips is integrated with the Swift system.
Together, Americans can stop your cross-border liquidation of U.S. dollars."
"Don't we have any way to deal with it?" Sheng Chuncheng asked.
Teacher Zheng opened his eyes, looked up at Sheng Chuncheng, and laughed: "Why do you still care about this?"
Sheng Chuncheng blushed and whispered, "Although I can't see it, I can hear it. Once I hear it, I'll be interested."
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Xiao Sheng, I was rude, I shouldn't have said that." Teacher Zheng said, "In 2012, the United States imposed sanctions on our country's Kunlun Bank because of its business with Iran.
The bank was stopped from clearing US dollars, but Kunlun Bank finally bypassed it.
"How to get around it? That is to change the business form and turn capital transactions into barter. For example, if you want to buy 200 million U.S. dollars of oil, you go to Kunlun Bank to open a RMB account and transfer RMB equivalent to 200 million U.S. dollars.
Deposit it in, and the Iranian bank that cooperates with Kunlun Bank will send the equivalent of 200 million U.S. dollars in riyals, which is Iranian money, to your Iranian supplier.
"The supplier can ship the oil to you, and vice versa. When an Iranian customer wants to buy something from China, he deposits his rial in an Iranian bank. Kunlun Bank transfers RMB to the domestic supplier.
For merchants, the U.S. dollar is just a unit of account or reference value, not a trading currency. In fact, the entire process does not require the U.S. dollar, so the U.S. dollar is bypassed." This chapter has been completed!