Comments on: Russia’s Wealth: Weapon of Economic Destruction?

By: bummer

bummer — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:01:23 +0000

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By: China’s PLA Offers Interesting Advice On Reserve Management « Oxford SWF Project

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:45:06 +0000

[...] I think the story is fascinating, especially coming off the news last week that Russia had approached China over the summer with an idea to cause economic mayhem in the USA by selling US Treasuries en [...]

By: Official Russia | Russia’s Economic Warfare against the United States

Official Russia | Russia’s Economic Warfare against the United States — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 06:01:24 +0000

[...] by Blake Hounshell in Foreign Policy, is the indication of Russia’s willingness to use its sovereign wealth funds at the service of an aggressive foreign policy … something we’ve been writing about [...]

By: Ashby Monk

Ashby Monk — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:58:54 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Rene. There is something to your point; if you go back to the US deliberations over the PNTR with China, you’ll see (Republicans) taking an idealistic approach that assumed China would be responsible trading partner. I wonder what these policymakers would say today?

By: Rene

Rene — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:23:12 +0000

China did to the U.S. with exports (via “Chimerica”) what the U.S. did to Russia with the Cold War.

China has already started trading in their U.S. dollars for assets around the world.

They can’t play the game Russia wants to play until they divest themselves of enough U.S. dollars but they already have a game plan of their own.