This year marks the 90th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and Russia, but relations between the two countries have never been more tense than this year. Recently, many Western ** have suddenly released rumors that the United States may want to attack the idea of Russian foreign exchange;According to reports, the United States seems to be eyeing Russia's $300 billion foreign exchange reserves frozen due to the growing shortage of funds to aid Ukraine.
There is a disclosure that the United States plans to negotiate with its allies in an attempt to persuade them to agree to use Russia's $300 billion foreign exchange reserves to aid Ukraine;However, this move has been opposed by many people, and the Financial Times has warned in a report that it lacks legitimate rationality and legitimacy, and EU countries do not support this approach, because it will set a terrible precedent and undermine global financial rules.
In an interview with Interfax a few days ago, Deputy Foreign Minister Briyakov sternly warned the United States that if Washington really intends to confiscate Russia's foreign exchange reserves under the pretext of "aiding Ukraine," then US-Russian relations will not be guaranteed, and diplomatic relations may even be severed.
In addition, Briyakov reminded the United States that Russia is ready for such a scenario. Using the threat of "severing diplomatic relations", it seems that Russia is quite annoyed by the United States, which will indeed cause Russia heavy losses, and may even lead to Russia's profits directly zeroing in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
This is not the first time that the United States has done so. For Russia, even if the United States does do this, there is nothing it can do about it, and the only thing it can do is retaliate and make the United States think that the cost of doing so is too highBut it's a very good reference for us.
In fact, compared with Russia's $300 billion in foreign exchange reserves, China's $3 trillion in foreign exchange reserves is the "real fat sheep". We can also foresee that when the United States finally goes insane, it will try to seize China's foreign exchange reserves or overseas assets all over the worldRussia has a nuclear deterrent capability on par with the United States, and at the same time, the conventional armed forces have also proved that they are enough to make NATO drink a pot in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict - in this case, the United States dares to attack Russia's foreign exchange reserves, which shows how bold Washington's gang is.
To counter the United States, in fact, there is no way. China is doing a very important thing, that is, to reduce its dependence on the dollar: just a few days ago, the latest international capital liquidity report released by the U.S. Treasury Department showed that China sold $8.7 billion in U.S. dollar treasury bonds again, which is China's seven consecutive months of selling U.S. dollar treasury bonds, and the cumulative sell-off this year has exceeded 100 billion, and the current scale of U.S. dollar treasury bonds is 769.6 billion U.S. dollars, a record low since 2009.
On the other hand, China is vigorously promoting renminbi settlement. Some time ago, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Mishustin said during a visit that the amount of China and Russia this year has exceeded 200 billion US dollars, and the settlement has gotten rid of dependence on third countries, in fact, he is talking about the US dollar;In addition, China has recently signed or expanded local currency swap agreements with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and according to statistics from international financial institutions, the renminbi has surpassed the yen to become the world's fourth largest international payment currency.
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has taught us a profound lesson, that is, the bandit nature of the West will never change. Nowadays, the West is less and less able to create wealth, but only intensifies plundering and exploitation, and Russia is a typical exampleWhat we need to do is very simple: reduce our dependence on the dollar and strengthen our own defense capabilities, especially our own strategic deterrence.
The old zombies of the Cold War in Washington always imagine that the United States is still the United States that can be lawless, and it can still suppress any other country at will like the "unipolar era";But the "good old days" of the West are long over, and we should tell these people with practical ability that if they want to be robbers in front of China, they no longer have the qualifications!