Yuan to Be the World’s 5th Reserve Currency?

[waterpile]

It is true that Chinese economy is already number 1 in the world, but this is not enough for Yuan to be seen as top world currency. How can everyone can trust in yuan when even chinese government are not taking this matter seriously, and they could have change regulations long time ago to make you an even stronger as reserve currency but instead they prefered dollars.

They are stuck. They have to prop up the dollar as it is the very basis of their export driven economy and otherwise all their reserves would become useless. So they are forced to buy even more dollars and in effect are paying for USA's lifestyle.

Its a cycle and I dont see it beng broken, and due to this USD will be better than CNY as a reserve currency.

Here it says that its part of their Economic strategy to be competitive

-China makes sure its currency, the yuan, is always lower than the U.S. dollar. Why? Part of its economic strategy is to keep its export prices competitive.

http://useconomy.about.com/od/worldeconomy/p/What-Is-the-US-Debt-to-China.htm

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[kelsey]

The question is more political than economical. Many countries don't want China to be more powerful than it already is.

by many countries you mean United States.

[aso118]

The question is more political than economical. Many countries don't want China to be more powerful than it already is.

by many countries you mean United States.

China's neighbours too. China has border disputes with most of its neighbours and is perceived as a kind of bully in the region.

[Robert Paulson]

it will happen eventually, once the Chinese start selling to their domestic market instead of loaning money to America just so it could use it to buy stuff from them.

that will be the end game of the USA, with a constant current account deficit of 440 billion$ every year the USA along with its military is completely dependent on China to continue throwing good money after bad.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/current-account

that's what you get for abandoning free market capitalism and replacing it with a highly regulated paper money driven central bank controlled "market".

[umairsaleem]

You're talking about a currency that used in a country that take up one fifth of the earth population, besides this country is grow extremely fast, this is normal, don't make become a 'China threat'.

[AtheistAKASaneBrain]

Vast sums worldwide are still held as dollar denominated assets that can't easily be moved to other currencies crypto or not without creating massive disruption. We will get there but it will take time.

[Robert Paulson]

once the mountains of USD debt starts being defaulted on and the hyperinflation kicks in due to the drop in USD demand without those debts the world will completely change within a year.

[OrientA]

once the mountains of USD debt starts being defaulted on and the hyperinflation kicks in due to the drop in USD demand without those debts the world will completely change within a year.

Dollar debt will not default if US keeps on printing money. Hyper inflation will be a reality.

[bisom]

China does nothave the military power to make Yuan reserve currency

Maybe military power is an effect to make any currency as a reserve but I don't think so. Government transparency is the highest factor to be used as a reserve.

Chinese government has an high control on the flow of capital. If they ease restirictions over the capital maybe yuan is used as a reserve currency.

[Q7]

I still think it needs to sort out some issues internally. Fundamentally, yes, you are right, yuan is strong but to become the world's reserve currency, there still needs to be some demand for it to facilitate international transactions. Don't forget in order to purchase crude oil, it's automatically that you will need dollar for the purchases. Other issues like transparency, politically issues arising from within the government, imbalances lead by rapid economic growth and don't forget yuan is essentially still considered to be grossly undervalued.

[Zorrocoin]

The question is more political than economical. Many countries don't want China to be more powerful than it already is.

I agree with you that its political but I see it from another aspect. I think trust is a big issue for yuan. Capital control by the government is an annoying thing for capital holders. You can not know what will happen to yuan due to the goverments reactions.

Lets look at bitcoin, we can see how Chinese government look at the issue. They just try to ban it since there is no control over it.

[Grand_Voyageur]

There is not one mention of China’s official request to have the RMB added to the SDR composition on ZeroHedge, and other large alternative sources. Very strange indeed, considering the gravity of that request.

I think it has more to do with IMF rules as well as with major central banks holding CNY after the many currency swap deal they did in the last years:

European Central Bank and the People’s Bank of China: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/236651ca-3185-11e3-817c-00144feab7de.html

Bank of England and the People's Bank of China: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-23020718

Currency swap deal list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_of_the_renminbi#List_of_RMB_Bilateral_Swap_Agreements

[mrhelpful]

Sounds about right.

Its 10x bigger then USA alone, which means more people, more people, more spending, more use of that dollar / yuan.

So yeah, also they have more millionaires there then u.s due to the population difference.

[aso118]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/07/us-china-imf-sdr-idUSKBN0MY24220150407

A Chinese win at IMF no one-way bet for yuan

(Reuters) - Later this year the IMF might include the Chinese yuan in its official basket of reserve currencies, a political and economic triumph for Beijing in the teeth of U.S. opposition, but slowing growth in China is likely to limit the impact of the victory.

[gkv9]

Chinese are pushing to make yuan reserve currency so I wouldn't be surprised to see this happening in the next 10-15 years. Yes there is a lot of controversy around Yuan but Chinese economy is growing every year in a vast way

And also keep in mind China holds billions worth of US treasury bonds and notes.  And soon... bitcoin.

They already have most Bitcoins at their hands I guess...
I have seen an article somewhere, don't remember, but according to its stats, China holds more than 40% of total BTC in circulation, is it actually true???

[aso118]

Chinese are pushing to make yuan reserve currency so I wouldn't be surprised to see this happening in the next 10-15 years. Yes there is a lot of controversy around Yuan but Chinese economy is growing every year in a vast way

And also keep in mind China holds billions worth of US treasury bonds and notes.  And soon... bitcoin.

They already have most Bitcoins at their hands I guess...
I have seen an article somewhere, don't remember, but according to its stats, China holds more than 40% of total BTC in circulation, is it actually true???

When people say China holds billions worth of US treasury bonds, they are talking about the Chinese government. Chinese people might hold bitcoins, but I don't think the government holds any significant sum.