April 2008
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 41m
English
For the U.S. economy, it just might be the economic equivalent of a nuclear holocaust. China decides to dump the over $1 trillion in U.S. foreign reserves it holds—some 44 percent of the total U.S. national debt. The already-stumbling U.S. housing market is beaten into collapse. And the euro overtakes the dollar as the world’s reserve currency of choice as America sinks into a deep recession.
It’s not always easy to read the tea leaves in Beijing. But serious analysts say that in recent days, China has quietly threatened that this “nuclear option” is very much on the table should the U.S. government attempt to force a revaluation of the yuan via trade sanctions.
—Foreign Policy
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