Roaming in the dark

Chapter 18 The Old Lady Throws Her Head Back

The old lady tilted her head back and closed her eyes. Sheng Chuncheng massaged the upper and lower lips along the circumference of the mouth with the middle fingers of both hands, and then used the middle fingers and ring fingers of both hands to make a spiral from the inside to the outside of the cheeks. shape massage.

After massaging her face, Sheng Chuncheng was about to massage her head for Teacher Zheng, when her cell phone rang again, Sheng Chuncheng stopped, and the old lady said sorry, she took the cell phone next to her and answered it.

From the faint voice, Sheng Chuncheng could hear it, it was the same voice in front, the old lady muttered impatiently, "Why are you not finished yet", but immediately said:

"Okay, tell me, I'll listen."

The other party was talking on the phone, the old lady shook her head for a while, nodded for a while, and after a while, she said:

"It's not that Lao Mei can't use the financial means you mentioned, but these are tricks that kill one thousand enemies and hurt eight hundred, or even one thousand two hundred. He has to weigh it."

The old lady shook her head: "Impossible, they can't and don't dare to touch our foreign exchange reserves. Let me do a simple calculation for you. Our foreign exchange reserves are more than 3 trillion U.S. dollars, but you know, How much is Laomei’s physical investment in our country, various corporate bonds, corporate bonds and venture capital, and the stock investment in Chinese concept stocks? Almost [-] trillion US dollars.

"If you freeze my foreign exchange reserves, it means that the two sides are completely torn apart. Well, you do the first day of the junior high school, and I do the fifteenth day. If you are unkind and I am unrighteous, I will freeze all these assets. Whoever will lose the most , These frozen ones are all funded by American politicians. Knowing that Wang is very arrogant towards Hong Kong, why don’t he dare to fart towards Macau? There is no "National Security Law" in Macau?
"There is a reason. The boss of the Sands Group is a benefactor 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?"

Mr. Zheng asked: "Kick our bank out of the SWIFT system? It's a dream, SWIFT also accepts euros and renminbi. We are still the largest trading country in more than 110 countries. With such a large volume, Lao Mei does not do business with us. Others Is everyone going to be unlucky? SWIFT is not just an old man covering the sky with one hand. At most, he will suspend the settlement in US dollars. This must be the most extreme situation.

"Yes, as I said, we have cards, not without 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. To speed up internationalization, you will We have to open up the capital account, and we must be very cautious about this.

"There is another step to speed up the digital currency. The last one, which I think is the most promising, is that we will 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. Make a sovereign currency, that is, join the Asian dollar circle. Your weight in the Asian dollar corresponds to your domestic GDP. In this way, we have the dominance.

"Countries that have joined, such as Russia, the Middle East and other energy powers, as well as manufacturing countries like us and Southeast Asia, I said that financial hegemony, energy and manufacturing can also become hegemony, if so many countries participate in the Asian dollar, 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 is man-made. Southeast Asia will never forget that during the Asian financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund and the International Monetary Fund The World Bank, how ugly it is, how it squeezed them, including South Korea, they also know how Samsung's equity was forced to give up at that time.

"History has memories, and we want 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 are very at ease? Can they sleep at night? Old America The big sticks of human rights and democracy are being brandished all over the world. Why did they put them all away when they came to the Middle East? They all changed their accents?
"They are keeping the back door, that is, keeping the handle. When they need it, they can use democracy and human rights as an excuse to take all the assets of these countries in the Middle East. Those people in the Middle East are not fools. They Can you not see this clearly?

"If there is an Asian dollar in which they participate, tell me, will they exchange US dollar and euro assets for the Asian dollar? Will the petrodollar one day become the petro-Asian dollar? Take a longer view and have a bigger picture Only then can there be a lot to do, the world has entered the Asian century, we must lead Asia, go out of our own way, and don’t be afraid to stand out.”

Put down the phone, continue the massage, and now start the head massage, which happens every time. At this time, the old lady likes to talk to Sheng Chuncheng while massaging.

Sheng Chuncheng asked: "Mr. 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 message system. For example, if someone wants to remit a sum of money in China to someone in the United States, he has completed the formalities 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 money is actually in place, it needs to be exchanged between banks. Everyone in this system has signed an agreement, and no one will default on their debts. Therefore, everyone defaults. Seeing a SWIFT instruction is tantamount to seeing a bank. To the money, let the business go on.

"In layman's terms, SWIFT is like WeChat, which mainly transmits information, but it does not mean that without WeChat, there is no way to communicate. You can also use SMS, right? Everyone uses WeChat now because everyone I feel that using WeChat is more convenient than SMS, and the same is true for SWIFT, and there is also a process of gradual acceptance by everyone, and it becomes the mainstream system after everyone accepts it.”

Sheng Chuncheng listened, as if he understood it, but he didn't fully understand it. He asked:
"Then I heard from 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." Mr. Zheng said, "SWIFT is just a message system, not an exchange system. How can it be sanctioned? To achieve the purpose of sanctions, it must be achieved through settlement banks. .

"The cross-border settlement of U.S. dollars all over the world must go through CHIPS, the interbank payment system of the New York Clearing House. Americans control CHIPS. If it suspends your liquidation, you will have no way to exchange U.S. dollars. CHIPS cooperates with the SWIFT system. Together, the Americans can stop your dollar transnational liquidation.”

"Is there no way we can 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 said in a low voice, "Although I can't see it, I can hear it. I'm interested when I hear it."

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Xiao Sheng, I was rude, I shouldn't have said that." Teacher Zheng said, "In [-], the United States once imposed sanctions on our country's Bank of Kunlun, because of its business with Iran, Kunlun Bank The bank was stopped from clearing U.S. dollars, but Kunlun Bank finally bypassed it.

"How to get around it? That is to change the business form and turn the transaction of funds into barter. For example, if you want to buy [-] million U.S. dollars of oil, you go to Kunlun Bank to open a RMB account and transfer the equivalent of [-] million U.S. dollars. Deposit it, and the Iranian bank, which cooperates with Kunlun Bank, will send the equivalent of [-] million U.S. dollars in rials, 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 the rial in the Iranian bank, and Kunlun Bank transfers the RMB to the domestic supply. Merchants, the U.S. dollar is in the middle, just a unit of account or reference value, not a transaction currency, in fact, the whole process does not require U.S. dollars, and the U.S. dollar is bypassed.”

(End of this chapter)