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Libya and Iraq tried this and america invaded and crushed them.
China Launches ‘Petroyuan’ To End Global Dollar Dominance
oct 25 2017 China, the world’s biggest oil importer, is set this year to implement its plan to end the global dominance of the U.S. dollar by launching a gold-backed futures contract denominated in yuan. Experts say that Beijing’s plan to introduce a gold-backed crude oil futures contract based on the yuan represents an important step in the country’s push to end the dollar’s global dominance. The adoption of the new crude oil benchmark by major players in global oil markets would sound the death knell of the currently dominant dollar-denominated oil futures, according to experts.
Adam Levinson, head of Graticule Asset Management Asia, told Bloomberg that China’s latest move is part of a long-term plan for the yuan to topple the dollar as the currency used to price oil in global markets. Chinese planners correctly believe that setting up the yuan to compete with the dollar in global markets is essential to achieving the status of an economic superpower.
Besides its state-owned oil companies, China hopes that countries, such as Russia, Iran, and Venezuela, targeted by the U.S. with economic sanctions would be the first to adopt the new yuan-based benchmark as part of their strategy to reduce their vulnerability to U.S. foreign policy, which seeks to use economic sanctions to punish countries that refuse to toe the line.