Chapter 844: This Is the Real Gold Mine
In order to maintain this transcendent position, and in order to make the whole world work for Americans, the United States has vigorously suppressed the process of internationalization of other countries' currencies. In the previous life, China made great efforts to make the renminbi an international currency, but the results were not great, and it could only circulate in a small amount in a few small surrounding countries, which was still too far from a real international currency.
Guo has this idea now because he believes that if the internationalization of the renminbi is promoted from now on, the integration of the renminbi into the international monetary system will be far easier and more successful than in previous lives.
First, the Soviet Union has not yet collapsed, and France still has a great deal of autonomy, and the US dollar is only more widely used than the Soviet Union's ruble, France's franc, Britain's pound sterling and other major international currencies, far from the absolute dominance of the dollar as in previous lives.
Because the dollar oil system has just been established, in addition to OPEC, there are many countries that still have not adopted the method of dollar settlement for their oil, and the United States has not tasted too much of the sweetness of dollar settlement, and their military, economic and political strength is far from enough to influence the world situation, so they have not excessively suppressed the attempts of other countries to internationalize their currencies, nor are they capable of suppressing them. They and other Western countries even hope that China's renminbi will replace the ruble in international trade.
However, once the Soviet Union collapsed, the countries united around the Soviet Union broke away from the Eastern bloc one by one and threw themselves into the arms of the United States and Western countries, and one by one took the initiative to accept the dollar as the settlement currency, and once France joined NATO and ceased to be unique among Western countries, the situation would be grim. There will be no gap in the internationalization of China's currency, and it will have to go head-to-head with the US dollar face-to-face.
Second, after years of hard work, China's economic strength has greatly increased, which has left a deep impression on the world, and all countries have a lot of confidence in the renminbi, and there is no need to worry about the renminbi depreciating sharply or even becoming a piece of waste paper. In addition, China has large oil fields in Iraq and Iran, and its own oil fields are also very large, and now China not only does not need to import oil from OPEC countries, but can also supply oil to other countries. In other words, other countries that need oil and buy crude oil from China do not have to use dollars to buy oil, but only use the yuan. This is tantamount to digging a channel for the circulation of the renminbi, in which it can circulate.
Third, China's trade in electronic products, represented by computers and game consoles, is huge, and in the arms market, China's current arms (arms) trade is also impressive; although conventional weapons are only on a large scale in Iran and Iraq, and there are not many other countries, and air defense missiles are limited to a few countries, the shape is good, and the international market is expanding step by step. Once the YJ0 anti-ship missile succeeds this time, if it sells as vigorously as France's Exocet missile in the previous life, then it will not only be able to open up a huge market on its own, but will also be able to drive other high-tech products in China to open up the market, because in the eyes of the world, China can also produce the world's most cutting-edge products, and it is no longer stupid and coarse in the past.
The booming sales of these products have made countries around the world feel that they can use the renminbi to buy all kinds of things they hope from China, which gives the circulation of the renminbi a soil for survival.
On the contrary, if there are no such products, especially high-tech products, others will think that China has nothing to buy, that they cannot buy the best things they want, that others will not or are unwilling to use the renminbi, and that the circulation of the renminbi is just an empty word.
Fourth, China is currently in the early stage of reform and opening up, and needs to import a large number of products and materials. Money circulation is like the flow of water in a lake, there must be water infusion before water can flow out. China has countless products that can be purchased by people from all over the world with RMB, which only shows that the RMB has value and can flow in at any time, but it cannot be said that the RMB will definitely circulate.
An important reason why the US dollar in the previous life was able to achieve hegemony in the world was that the purchasing power of the United States was strong, and as a large number of products were purchased by the United States, their dollars flowed out into the pockets of other countries.
In other words, China must have enormous purchasing power to allow other countries to sell their products to obtain the renminbi in order to maintain the normal circulation of the renminbi.
If China only exports goods to the outside world, and does not import or suppress imports, then the renminbi will never become an international currency, because other countries have no way to obtain and own and reserve the renminbi, how can it be liquid?
In this regard, China made many mistakes in the previous life, and of course this mistake was mainly because the country was too poor to have huge purchasing power, which is simply incomparable to the purchasing power of the United States.
In the past, China's trade policy has always been skewed towards exports, and as long as it can export products, the company is a good company, and the government will vigorously recognize it, regardless of whether the company sells at a loss or sells valuable non-renewable resources. However, there are all kinds of restrictions on imports: what can be solved at home must not be purchased from abroad.
Because of this, China's trade surplus has increased year by year, and its foreign exchange reserves have skyrocketed day by day. At that time, everyone rejoiced about this, and they laughed about it, until the foreign exchange reserves became the first in the world, and the money could not be spent until the United States took the indiscriminate printing of money, wantonly expanded the amount of currency issuance, and the dollar reserves in their hands automatically depreciated day by day.
Some people may say that there is nothing wrong with having more foreign exchange reserves, you can buy a lot of things.
It is true that with money you can buy a lot of things, the question is do you dare to buy them? Can you buy it?
If you use so much foreign exchange reserves to buy ordinary commodities in the international market, other countries, including the United States, will raise their hands and feet in favor of it, and they will sell you as much as you buy, and you can even buy one get one free for discounts. However, you dare not buy it, why? Because you buy so many things back not only useless, but also help foreign countries to attack and destroy their own enterprises and reduce domestic jobs. Because these products can be produced in China, and the production is better and cheaper than foreign ones.
Some people will say, then I will use this money to buy foreign mineral resources and high-tech products, which is always okay, right?
It's okay to buy mineral resources, but the pricing power is not in your China, as long as you dare to buy in large quantities, they will dare to raise prices sharply, and at the same time, you will be ridiculed as 255.
Buying high-tech gadgets? Buying a big business or a big factory? I'm sorry, but people don't sell it! The first is the ban on the export of high-tech to China. The purchase of a large enterprise must go through the approval of many departments, you can go through the previous procedures, and you can go through it with a little effort, but the last procedure is not good, that is, you can't get through. There are many reasons for this, such as endangering the national security of the United States, reducing the employment of local people, and so on.
Feeling that they have gone too far, they may be willing to let China buy one or two companies at a high price to show that they are fair.
The safest and best way for China to have so much foreign exchange is to buy U.S. Treasury bonds, which is what the U.S. welcomes the most. The money China makes makes the officials of the White House eat and drink, and China itself can finally earn a little interest, although this interest is far less than the loss caused by the depreciation of the dollar, but it is better than not depreciating in vain.
With Chinese money, the Americans eat with a mouthful of oil, and when they have no money to spend, they sell a batch of government bonds. It's just something on paper, you don't even have to print bills, you just write a bunch of numbers on paper.
This scene is like a scene that often appears in movies: a rich man with a pile of gold and silver treasures smiles and asks the bandits to laugh.
Guo Zhuocheng's ultimate goal is to be this bandit himself, and let others take a bunch of gold and silver treasures to give him flowers, so that it is cool.
To become a bandit who extorts others, you must have strength.
If China wants the renminbi to become a major international currency, it must first have good products in its own pockets, preferably high-tech products that no one else has, so as to force others to buy the renminbi.
It was precisely because the YJ0 anti-ship missile's performance was about China's future national fortunes that he threw away a qiē job, ostensibly to accompany Princess Madeleine, but in fact he was paying attention to every move of this sneak attack.
For his behavior, many people, including Yu Gangqiu and other high-ranking officials, don't understand and don't understand, just like Princess Madeleine, they think that Guo Zhuocheng is making a bit of a fuss, isn't it just to make more money by selling a weapon?
It is not that Yu Gangqiu and others are not shrewd, but they do not know the future direction of the world, and they do not know at all that if they continue to advance according to the wheel of history, the United States will become the dominant pole in the world, and China will be severely restricted and intimidated by them from time to time.
But Guo Zhuocheng can't say too much now, can't say too thoroughly, and can only imperceptibly promote his thoughts and ideas in ordinary times. For their misunderstanding, he can only be helpless, he can only use his young and naughty to cover, and he can only wait for the situation to change in the future to explain.
Argentina's operation can be described as a desperate gamble, why didn't Guo Zhuocheng go all out? And the reason why Argentina did this is the result of Guo Zhuocheng's efforts. Of course, if this operation fails, Guo Zhuocheng will have a follow-up measure, that is, to send a few YJ0 anti-ship missiles to Argentina for free, and also to sink at least one large British warship. All of this required him to make a decision on the spot, and he also needed to use the missiles that had been secretly sent to Argentina by steamer a long time ago.
Until now, he had no idea that the operation had far exceeded his expectations, and that it was not just one ship that had been sunk.
Princess Madeleine naturally didn't know that Guo Zhuocheng was thinking about it now, but she only knew that he was a little distracted. But she didn't bother him, like a docile cat, quietly snuggled into his arms, and kissed him from time to time with a small mouth close to his face.
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