The mighty US dollar was what every country was craving for. It was the safest and dependable reserve currency for the world. Practically every country would hold on to some US dollar in their national reserves. International trade was all done in the dollar. Many countries work their guts out to sell their products and services to the US in exchange for the dollar. The US was in such an enviable position, to print toilet paper into money to buy everything they need for their own pleasure.
China's economy was in a big way anchored to the US economy and the dollar. The Chinese work tirelessly for the last few decades to send their products to the US for the dollar. They amassed trillions of US dollar, even converted a big sum into US T bills for safe keeping and to earn interest.
Every country grudgingly put up with the dollar as the world's reserve currency when there was no alternative available. But things took a dramatic change when the Americans abused this privilege and weaponised the dollar to bring down their enemy countries through sanctions and ransom of the international financial system. The urgency to look for an alternative to the dollar gains speed and traction. Within months, the whole picture of the dollar as the reserve currency changed.
Dedollarisation is now the top game being played by the international community. The dollar is no longer the only means for international trade. The implications are pervasive and far reaching. Before the straw broke the camel's back, China was carefully working to by pass the trade wars and sanctions imposed by the Americans. It moved many of its low end industries overseas, to Asean, esp Vietnam, Indonesia, Africa and Latin America. The branded shoes and apparel factories popped up everywhere, making the same shoes and whatever, to sell to America. China still make the money as well as the countries where their factories have been relocated. All earning American dollar.
This is going to change when the value of the dollar plummaged. What is the point of earning dollar when it is no longer a safe currency, when its value is falling everyday? What is the point of earning dollar when it is not going to be accepted as an international currency? It has not reach this point yet. What if, the dollar becomes like the Argentinian or Venezeulan currencies, when it becomes a banana currency? When this day comes, China nor any country would still want to sell to the American market in exchange for the dollar that is worth nothing but toilet papers. And when no one wants to sell to the Americans, you can imagine what the scenario would be, a hamburger costing $200 today and $400 tomorrow, and eventually there will be dollars everywhere, like banana currency. Have dollars but worth nothing and can buy nothing. The shelves of Walmart stores would be empty.
Every country would be turning to China to sell their goods and services for Yuan or BRICS currency instead of the US. 1.4b middle class Chinese would absorb the products and services from the rest of the world. There will be no American tourists as their dollars not wanted and not usable. By then the Yuan and BRICS currency would earn their place as the most trusted and safest international currency for trade and savings, as national reserves. Whither the dollar when the trust and confidence is lost, when it is not backed up by anything, but just a piece of toilet paper.
And no more sanctions when every country is not using American dollar.
When would this day come, the day of reckoning for the evil American Empire, for bullying the rest of the world, for cheating on the world, for abusing the dollar, for abusive the trust of the people of the world, for lying to the world and for creating all the wars in the world? It would be very soon and surprise everyone. The Americans still telling each other that China has a lot of problems and the US has no problems, at home or abroad. What a blessed country, America!