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Yuan exceeds dollar in China's bilateral trade for first time (asia.nikkei.com)

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[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree, but that certainly accelerated it, one thing is to sanction a small island or third world country and another one is to sanction a country like Russia, the message is different. If it was Russia's turn it could be Saudi Arabia's next, or whomever.

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml -5 points 2 years ago

Russia is special in the West and I don't think anyone has any illusions about that. No one except maybe China is comparable to Russia as the ebil spoopy bad guyz