Western sanctions have bolstered interest by China and Russia in creating a third reserve currency to challenge the dollar and the euro. There is discussions of creating a BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) based basket currency similar to the IMF’s SDR’s. After all, China does not want to confront the potential economic sanctions imposed on Russia, particularly expulsion from the SWIFT system. And there is a definite asymmetry when considering the value of the euro and dollar in international settlements versus the respective economies’ share of global GDP.
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