China and Japan ink bilateral currency swap deal worth up to $30bn

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While Trump and the Republicans sell the story of unfair foreign competition, they leave out the part where they de-industrialized the US by shifting manufacturing off-shore during the Reagan years, primarily as a way to kill the unions, which it did.



Your average Republican will not even admit that there is a connection between the Reagan era and the current one. Gordon covered this recently in his article featuring Hubert Humphrey.

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Yes, the upkeep of all bases is a boost to those economies, but it puts military and intelligence power in places where it can be used against the host countries in a number of ways.

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– First published … October 26, 2018 –

Beijing and Tokyo sealed a multi-billion dollar currency swap arrangement on Friday, aimed at enhancing financial stability and spurring business activity in both countries.

According to the Bank of Japan (BOJ), the arrangement which will last until October 25, 2021, will allow the exchange of local currencies between the two central banks for up to 200 billion yuan or 3.4 trillion yen ($30 billion).

The agreement was sealed during Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Beijing for the first formal Sino-Japanese summit in seven years. The meeting comes as Asia’s two biggest economies look to strengthen relations against a backdrop of trade friction with the United States.

The two main holders of the US Treasury securities, China and Japan have trimmed their ownership of notes and bonds in August.

“With the strengthening of economic and financial linkages between Japan and China, Japanese financial institutions have been expanding their renminbi-based businesses,” said the BOJ.

It added that would be prepared to provide liquidity in the yuan currency, should Japanese financial institutions face unexpected difficulties in yuan settlements, and if the bank judges the liquidity provision to be necessary for ensuring the stability of Japan’s financial system.

China has been actively seeking to boost the use of its currency in mutual trade settlements with partners, bypassing the US dollar. The idea of moving away from the dollar in global trade has become a trend lately among countries like Russia, China, Japan, Iran, Turkey, Venezuela, and others.

READ MORE: Putin backs plan to de-dollarize Russian economy

Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently supported weaning the country’s financial sector off the greenback, saying the dollar monopoly was unsafe and dangerous for the global economy.

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  1. The Israeli gangsters running the U.S. today only learn lessons the hard way. There is more than one way to skin a cat. All nations of the world must abandon the U.S. Dollar ASAP. This will end the extortion by thugs like Trump and also bring the corrupt U.S. to its economic knees and soon. America is bankrupt morally and fiscally and the end is near. It could happen at any instant without warning. The bigger they are the harder they fall. I hate to say these things about my country but they won’t listen to folks like me. The thugs running America never learned anything in History class. All they did was memorize meaningless dates and lies that Abraham Lincoln was a hero when he was an outlaw just like them. He had zero legal authority to kill a million and destroy billions of dollars of property in order to keep the Union together.

    • Anyone who believes slavery ended with the Civil War watch Harvest of Shame with Edward R. Murrow, CBS Reports, Thanksgiving Day, 1960: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJTVF_dya7E
      The criminals running the U.S. today want the rest of the world to be slaves to them. Fortunately the rest of the world may have different plans. This was real investigative journalism. In America today we lowly citizens are virtual slaves to a totally outlaw tyrannically government.

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