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Friday, November 2, 2012

Currency wars: ''China challenging dollar hegemony augurs geopolitical strains''

From Economic Times

"It's our currency and your problem," US Treasury Secretary John Connally famously said of the dollar in 1971.

More than 40 years later, China is doing something about it. Fed up with what it sees as Washington's malign neglect of the dollar, China is busily promoting the cross-border use of its own currency, the yuan, also known as the renminbi, in trade and investment.''

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