Tag: China
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China’s Gold Vault Network: Beijing Is Building the Physical Rails for a More Global Yuan
China’s push to internationalize the yuan is taking a distinctly old-world turn: gold. Rather than simply asking foreign governments and companies to trust another fiat currency, Beijing is building infrastructure that could give yuan-denominated trade a physical exit door into bullion. China is developing a network of offshore gold vaults while expanding the trading, clearing…
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Operation Economic Outcast: The Canada–U.S. Trade War Suddenly Looks Much Bigger
August 2026 may be remembered as the week Washington demonstrated two very different forms of economic warfare at the same time. On August 21, Canada–U.S. trade negotiations collapsed. On August 22, new American tariffs of 50% took effect on C$27.6 billion of Canadian goods. Two days later, on August 24, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent…
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China Asset Protection for the Expat in the Great Diaspora: Following the New Money Corridors
For China’s increasingly global class of entrepreneurs, executives, investors and families, asset protection is no longer simply about moving money offshore. It is about building a lawful financial architecture around where you live, where your wealth is held, which currency you earn, and which payment corridor connects the pieces. There is a new Chinese diaspora…
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The Truth About Gold: Is China Moving From Paper Promises to Physical Metal?
China is preparing to close an important door in the precious-metals market—and every serious gold investor should understand what happens next. On July 24, 2026, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, better known as ICBC, will stop providing individual customers with precious-metals trading services connected to the Shanghai Gold Exchange. Postal Savings Bank of…
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Copper Comes for Silver: LONGi’s 21 GW Solar Line Could Rewrite the PV Metals Trade
One of silver’s fastest-growing industrial markets is searching for an escape route—and China’s solar industry may have found one. LONGi Green Energy has commenced mass production of a new generation of back-contact solar cells using copper-based metallization at its Xixian manufacturing base in Shaanxi province. The production line has an annual capacity of approximately 21…
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July 7: The Day Gold Settlement Moves East
On July 7, Hong Kong is expected to process the first settlement through its new gold clearing and settlement system — a milestone that may be remembered as the moment Asia stopped merely consuming gold and began building the financial infrastructure to price, settle, store, and control it. For generations, the gold market has been…
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Institutions Shorting to Death: Top Expert Reveals Hidden Comex Desperation
German-Swiss silver expert Jochen Staiger just laid bare the true cause of silver’s savage collapse. The metal fell from a January peak of $115 an ounce all the way to $57 today. That is a brutal 50 percent loss in a matter of months. Yet Staiger insists the fundamentals have never looked stronger and the…
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China’s Gold-Backed RMB: The Monetary Signal Heard Around the World
Beijing’s quiet gold strategy may be the opening move in a new reserve-currency era China may not need to formally declare a “gold-backed RMB” for the market to understand what is happening. For years, Beijing has been building the architecture of a post-dollar settlement system: more gold, more bilateral trade in yuan, more offshore RMB…
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China’s Crackdown Threatens Hong Kong’s IPO Boom And Offshore Wealth
China’s latest push to choke off capital flight is starting to hit Hong Kong right where it hurts, according to a new feature from Bloomberg. For years, the city has served as the main offshore escape valve for mainland wealth — the place where Chinese founders, executives and wealthy families parked money, opened private bank accounts,…