There is no doubt that at a time when the United States' finances are stretched, a new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict broke out, which not only made the outside world see several American jokes, but also pushed Ukraine to a desperate situation. For this reason, after the strategic deployment of the United States fell into trouble, Biden began to toss "crooked ways" for his own political bargaining chips.
According to a number of Western ** reports, the United States has begun to "persuade" its G7 allies to embezzle $300 billion of the Russian central bank's frozen overseas assets to aid Ukraine. As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused a global shock. In the words of an editorial in the Financial Times, the incident is "worthy of high vigilance" because it would set a terrible precedent.
Then the question arises, since the consequences are terrible, why did the United States do this?
This has to be said that many people can hear the sound of Americans' "small abacus" clearly through the screen.
On the one hand, the United States actually accounts for only a small part of Russia's 300 billion overseas assets, and the majority is on the remaining six countries. Moreover, compared with the other six countries, the United States' investment in Russia is also pitiful. If Putin confiscates these countries in reciprocal terms, then the loss of the United States will be minimal, but these countries will be unlucky. After some calculation, the funds to aid Ukraine still have to come from those allies of the United States.
On the other hand, not only is there a lot of news that a large part of the previous Western aid to Ukraine has been put into his own pocket by the US military-industrial complex, and even Blinken has personally admitted that 90% of the military aid funds to Ukraine have been spent on the United States. Then God knows how much the United States will be able to carve up after this money is misappropriated.
However, in my opinion, the Financial Times is not wrong at all. Because the United States, in essence, has long developed into a financial empire, playing the trick of a white wolf with empty gloves. And the most important point of playing finance is to talk about credit, and now the United States is pulling the "little brother" to deduct all the assets of other people's families, and it is not enjoyable, and even has to embezzle them at will, so who will dare to go in the future, such an unruly country to invest?
To put it bluntly, we can completely see this matter as Biden stabbed himself in front of the whole world in order to make a little profit.
Speaking of which, we have to mention that China's overseas assets are many times more than those of Russia. Now the Americans have no bottom line at all, they can keep an eye on Russia's overseas assets today, then they can move us tomorrow. For this reason, we still need to maintain a high degree of vigilance.
But fortunately, my country has already begun to take precautions. For example, implement the development strategy of "dual circulation and internal circulation".Actively promote local currency swap agreements with many countries;After the old U.S. bonds are redeemed at maturity, they no longer buy new bonds, and gradually reduce their holdings, etc. Some time ago, members of the Faculty of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences also put forward two points at the Sanya International Forum on Finance and Economics. That.
1. Improve the liability structure of China's overseas assets and increase the income from overseas net assets. That.
2. Enhance the security of China's overseas assets, especially foreign exchange reserves. In other words, in the next stage, we are likely to start adjusting the structure of overseas assets in full swing.
All in all, the Americans, in the twilight of the empire, have become more and more crazy, and dare to stab themselves with knives in order to make their "enemies" unhappy. And we, with our unparalleled Chinese wisdom and long-term vision, will be impeccable and laugh at how the Americans will hammer the foundations of their empires.