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Dollar dump? Russia & China agree to bilateral trade in national currencies during Putin-Xi meeting
RT News ^ | 06/05/2019

Posted on 06/05/2019 12:02:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Russia and China took another step away from the US dollar after the two countries agreed to develop bilateral trade using the ruble and the yuan. It was just one of the major deals reached after the presidents of the two countries, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, held talks in Moscow on Wednesday.

“Russia and China intend to develop the practice of settlements in national currencies,” Putin told journalists at the news conference following the talks. He added that the states have signed intergovernmental agreements on expanding the use of the yuan and the ruble in bilateral financial operations.

A draft government decree on the national currencies trade was released earlier during the day. The document stipulates that Moscow and Beijing will cooperate on development of national payment systems, as well as facilitate cross-border payments in national and other currencies.

During the signing ceremony other major agreements were reached. Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom and China National Nuclear Power (CNNP) penned a general contract on building the third and fourth units at Xudapu nuclear plant in northeastern China.

It was earlier reported that the deal is worth $1.7 billion and construction is scheduled to begin in October 2021 and August 2022.

In another major deal, inked following the high-level talks, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), China’s Alibaba, and Russia’s Mail.Ru Group agreed to invest a total of $382 million into an e-commerce joint venture. Alibaba Group is to provide some $100 million, while the rest will be funded by the Russian side.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: china; chinarussia; currencies; dollar; ntsa; putin; russia; russiachina; trade; xi
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1 posted on 06/05/2019 12:02:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

What could go wrong????????............


2 posted on 06/05/2019 12:04:14 PM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: SeekAndFind
Are we supposed to believe that a Sino-Russia transaction in currency other than the U.S. Dollar is somehow a problem for the U.S. economy?

Nonsense!

3 posted on 06/05/2019 12:08:18 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: SeekAndFind

>>The document stipulates that Moscow and Beijing will cooperate on development of national payment systems

They didn’t agree on trade, they just agreed to form a committee to investigate the possible development of an agreement on trade.


4 posted on 06/05/2019 12:08:35 PM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: SeekAndFind
Well, China needs the natural gas from Russia urgently to clean up the dirty air of their cities. Burning natural has a tiny fraction of the pollutants that can affect everyone.
5 posted on 06/05/2019 12:08:43 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: SeekAndFind

This should be interesting where both parties devalue their currencies to get an advantage on each other.


6 posted on 06/05/2019 12:09:58 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: SeekAndFind

theyll reduce it to a barter system when their money tries to convert into dollars. there will be a choke point, and both sides will get REALLY mad.


7 posted on 06/05/2019 12:10:06 PM PDT by TonytheTiger7777
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To: SeekAndFind

Good luck with all that.


8 posted on 06/05/2019 12:10:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

Ok, I’ll trade you our crap currency for your shite rubles. Seems like a plan.


9 posted on 06/05/2019 12:19:14 PM PDT by HonorInPa
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To: SeekAndFind

The most honest President for Life little Putin working with President for Life Winnie the pooh Xi are sure to treat each other with respect and good principled business standards.

What a couple of losers.


10 posted on 06/05/2019 12:20:05 PM PDT by highpockets
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To: SeekAndFind

This is what appeasement buys you. We let them take advantage of us for decades, raping us to the point of losing vast swathes of our manufacturing capacities, but we’ll have ‘peace in our time.’ Meanwhile, China uses their huge trading profits from us to build up their military and when the time is right, they team up with our long-standing cold war enemy number one to work against us. Screw China. We’d best stop importing from them and start building up our own manufacturing base and our own military as fast as we possibly can. They’ve held long-term plans for us and our government has been blind.


11 posted on 06/05/2019 12:20:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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Replacing a $21.1 trillion GDP (US) trading partner with a $1.5 trillion GDP (Russia) trading partner...is a laughable.

Trump's got them where he wants them - if the RINO whores in the Senate don't stab him and America in the back.

12 posted on 06/05/2019 12:23:40 PM PDT by drpix
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The most honest President for Life little Putin working with President for Life Winnie the pooh Xi are sure to treat each other with respect and good principled business standards. What a couple of losers.

Just like Stalin and Hitler, back in 1939.

13 posted on 06/05/2019 12:24:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Because people all over the world want to trade in yen and rubels.


14 posted on 06/05/2019 12:25:48 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How could you post something from that fake state-owned and controlled “news” outlet RT (Russia Today)?


15 posted on 06/05/2019 12:40:19 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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OIL folks may like this


16 posted on 06/05/2019 12:42:16 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Chinese Communist Party is clueless


17 posted on 06/05/2019 12:50:47 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Jim Robinson
We let them take advantage of us for decades, raping us to the point of losing vast swathes of our manufacturing capacities, but we’ll have ‘peace in our time.’ Meanwhile, China uses their huge trading profits from us to build up their military and when the time is right, they team up with our long-standing cold war enemy number one to work against us. Screw China.

Well said, Mr. JR!!

18 posted on 06/05/2019 12:51:35 PM PDT by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! Newly updated FR Page w/ Table of Contents! Click ETL)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
This should be interesting where both parties devalue their currencies to get an advantage on each other.

Russia floats its currency...those commies!

19 posted on 06/05/2019 12:52:24 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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Good luck with all that.


Was about to post the same :)


20 posted on 06/05/2019 12:53:06 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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