Japon et Chine entre eux : fini le dollar

Japon et Chine entre eux : fini le dollar

Deux pays importants d’Asie viennent de décider d’abandonner le dollar comme devise pour leurs échanges commerciaux : la Chine et le Japon. L’hostilité supposée du reste de l’Asie vis-à-vis de la Chine, selon le verdict du docteur Obama, président d’une superpuissance dont il a été décidé il y a quelques semaines, par lui-même, qu’elle faisait partie du continent asiatique pour mener la croisade anti-chinoise, ne s’étend pas jusqu’au commerce et à l’adoration sans borne pour le Dieu-dollar.

L’aventure nous est contée par l’honorable Bloomberg.News, ce 26 décembre 2011.

»Japan and China will promote direct trading of the yen and yuan without using dollars and will encourage the development of a market for companies involved in the exchanges, the Japanese government said.

»Japan will also apply to buy Chinese bonds next year, allowing the investment of renminbi that leaves China during the transactions, the Japanese government said in a statement after a meeting between Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing yesterday. Encouraging direct yen- yuan settlement should reduce currency risks and trading costs, the Japanese and Chinese governments said.

»China is Japan’s biggest trading partner with 26.5 trillion yen ($340 billion) in two-way transactions last year, from 9.2 trillion yen a decade earlier. The pacts between the world’s second- and third-largest economies mirror attempts by fund managers to diversify as the two-year-old European debt crisis keeps global financial markets volatile.

»“Given the huge size of the trade volume between Asia’s two biggest economies, this agreement is much more significant than any other pacts China has signed with other nations,” said Ren Xianfang, a Beijing-based economist with IHS Global Insight Ltd.»

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