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Open in hackernews

Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

https://tradersunion.com/news/central-banks/show/2973571-deutsche-bank-becomes/
106•Markoff•57m ago

Comments

JimmyBuckets•47m ago
It will be interesting to see how much of Thucydides Trap plays out in currency and trade as opposed to military conflict. I am hopeful that economic and financial warfare absorbs the brunt of the power struggle.
iugtmkbdfil834•40m ago
Can you elaborate a little? I suspect it is a well known concept, but its the first time I heard of it in this context.
ForHackernews•39m ago
Rising power challenges the fading imperial hegemony. In this case, CNY displacing USD.
baxtr•35m ago
Is China still rising or already in decline?
ForHackernews•33m ago
Relative to the US or Europe? I think you know the answer to that.
edgyquant•26m ago
Relative to the US it’s not a straightforward answer but China is definitely not rising in the way it was a decade ago and has been outpaced by the us
myrmidon•9m ago
China has a massive demographic problem in the near future (after 2040ish), and it is extremely unlikely (IMO) that it is going to catch up/surpass the US in GDP per capita within the next decades.

But its relative GDP growth has been higher than the US for decades, is higher stil and is probably going to stay higher for years:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/real-gdp-growth?country=U...

tokai•14m ago
The answer is really not a clear cut as you assume any longer.
curuinor•32m ago
CNY displacing USD would entail allowing people outside China to buy really significant quantities of CNY-denominated financial products. This would entail CNY/USD changing so CNY is more expensive, because the default currency for financial products currently existing is USD. Which would slap a corresponding huge price increase with 0 increase in quality to all Chinese export. Which would murder Chinese manufacturing export. Which would entail laying off some grand proportion of an industry that employs 5% of the _human_ race. Which is why they're not gonna do that.
quickthrowman•16m ago
I’ll believe it when I see it, there’s a spread between onshore and offshore yuan exchange rates due to currency manipulation. It becomes harder to manipulate a currency as more of it is created, and AFAIK countries are not loading up on Chinese govt debt, but I may just be unaware?

The USD hegemony isn’t because of oil, it’s because everyone wants dollar-denominated assets. Treasury bonds, US real estate, US equities, etc. Possibly Chinese exports could soak up some of the yuan demand?

ImHereToVote•11m ago
I don't think China wants to make the CNY the reserve currency because it would decimate China as a manufacturing hub. They prefer China to be Jakob to the U.S. being Esau. The red lentil soup can be quite bitter.
detourdog•36m ago
President Xi of China mentioned it when the US President visited him in May.

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/i...

nubg•9m ago
utterly repulsive ai slop
detourdog•3m ago
Yes, but I liked that the article mentioned how Xi has been saying this for a long time.

I switched the link to Harvard.

JimmyBuckets•13m ago
Essentially its a very old (~2.5k year) idea that the interaction between an incumbent power and rising "challenger" power inevitably leads to war between the two. I was expressing my hope that if this does happen, the war can play out in less destructive arenas - one of which is in the competition for reserve currency status which the US has held for the whole of the modern era. This article possibly points at China's first shots in this conflict
kachnuv_ocasek•37m ago
I, for one, would appreciate if we could just move on past these incessantly destructive power struggles as humanity.
edgyquant•25m ago
Humans can not “move on” from human nature no matter how much people try to will it
kachnuv_ocasek•15m ago
It's as much "human nature" as being a slave was once the nature of some (chosen) peoples.
victorbjorklund•4m ago
Conflict between humans is much much more nature than slavery was. Just look at animals. Flock animals often have conflicts which others. But none of them have ”slaves” (at least no how humans understand it)
DC-3•36m ago
What does that mean?
rvz•34m ago
It means the dollar is dying.
glimshe•28m ago
People have been saying the dollar is dying since the 19th century. They said it again during the Great Depression, the end of Bretton Woods and the 2008 Financial crisis..
YesThatTom2•21m ago
The difference is now the US has a leader that is actively encouraging its downfall.
Moldoteck•6m ago
US dollar value was held by several pillars, among which- pax americana, petro dollar/assets and innovation sector. Pax americana is dismantled by US itself. Petro chemicals are threatened by ren transition and China. Tech sector still ensures having a lead in innovations. Guess what'll happen when/if pax americana will be fully dead, most important economies like EU/China/India will be able to supply own needs with less petrol products since the rest will com from ren and when/if tech AI pops/turns into a fiasco. Nothing lasts forever and US dollar is no exception
ForHackernews•34m ago
It means you can settle an international transaction in CNY with Deutsche Bank. Imagine a European lender financing a project in Nigeria that involves purchasing a lot of infrastructure from China.
sigma5•32m ago
"but at what cost" ?
wirj34iuh324uh2•27m ago
I'll pay.

https://genius.com/Jc-chandor-margin-call-boardroom-scene-an...

FrustratedMonky•30m ago
The end of the Petro Dollar?

Soviet-China-Iran - Petro Yuan?

kibwen•17m ago
There won't be a petro-anything. In 30 years the oil industry will no longer be the resource upon which the whole world turns, and will instead be just another industrial input.
smalllangmodel•16m ago
Soviet?
victorbjorklund•3m ago
Russia and Iran are irrelevant in the global economy.
avisser•27m ago
Is it a yuan or is it a Renminbi?
rf15•22m ago
Both. Renminbi is the currency name, while the yuan is the base unit.
xingped•20m ago
It's a little confusing, but technically RMB (renminbi) is the official name of the currency and CNY (yuan) is the base unit of the currency. Think of it like the difference between USD ("US Dollar") vs "dollar and cents", except there is no fractional yuan equivalent of cents, so it's all just yuan.
darrenf•4m ago
Pretty sure the jiao (角) (1/10th of a yuan) is still in use?
faitswulff•16m ago
The currency code is CNY or Chinese Yuan. Yuan itself is like “dollar,” with many different countries calling their currency “dollars.” Renminbi refers to the Chinese currency as a whole rather than any particular unit.
decimalenough•6m ago
Fun fact: the Japanese yen and Korean won are both cognates of "yuan". The character 圆 simply means "round" as in circular.
zer00eyz•27m ago
Deutsche banks slogan should be "If you need to do something shady call Deutsche".

At some point china will loose the ability to keep its global currency (Yuan, should be inflating) decoupled from the domestic one (Renminbi is deflating). They have been keeping long running issues in Banking, and Relestate at bay but a global recession (and were on the cusp it seems) is going to be brutal to china.

I suspect that if (when?) that hits this will turn into another Deutsche scandal.

pizzathyme•26m ago
The US wields incredible negotiating power and hegemony because the dollar is the world’s reserve currency. Like the British pound and the Dutch guilder before it, if that loses reserve currency status it will be harder to borrow on favorable terms, which would affect the entire US economy. This is a big step in that perhaps starting to happen over the next few decades.
smalllangmodel•18m ago
I really hope this is one step into a more multipolar world, maybe without a single hegemon the world is easier to change for the better
ForHackernews•12m ago
Historically a more multipolar world has been a more violent and chaotic world, but maybe this time will be better.
smalllangmodel•7m ago
Well I wouldn't say it's peaceful now, or has been in the past... Actually there's few years that the US wasn't at war.
username_my1•12m ago
This whole house of card is very modern, there was no such thing as "Reserve currency" not even the British pound, it was the most traded currency. but holding a currency's (debt) as a foreign reserve instead of gold is very recent phenomena, even central banks reserves or their function is also rather modern phenomena.

while Yuan usage in trade will reduce the US influence, the amount of assets held in dollar nominated investments is so so much bigger, and this will very slowly change if it will at all.

Alien1Being•24m ago
Trump is making China great again.

Pity about the USA....

qprofyeh•23m ago
I wonder if it has anything to do with the currency apparently being backed by an immense reserve of oil (proven to the world by this year's geopolitical events), then coal, and then a massive amount of renewable solar, hydro, wind kWh's and infrastructure to deliver it to homes and shops.

More and more it feels like a nation's kWh throughput is the new metric to track its global influence in manufacturing, industry, and financial services. In other words real power now equates to global power.

roschdal•20m ago
I don't like, trust or trade with China.
smalllangmodel•17m ago
But america xD
kklisura•19m ago
If there's one thing you can do now that will set you up for the next 20–30 years: it’s learning Mandarin.
aljgz•19m ago
Change happens gradually, and then suddenly.
athrowaway3z•18m ago
Would this also mean we can get a EuroDollar systems for the Yuan? As in, Deutsche Bank can create loans denominated in Yuan without Chinese central bank control?
BaardFigur•9m ago
Not a good thing. China is an authoritarian regime, which we need to reduce dependency on, not increase it.
matheusmoreira•7m ago
The US is not that different.
SanjayMehta•5m ago
The US is infinitely worse, at least China is predictable.
victorbjorklund•7m ago
We also need to reduce our depency on USA which is currently signaling it is a hostile nation that consider and invasion of Europe in the form of an occupation of Greenland. It is possible USA:a admin is just lying about their hostile intentions but that in itself is a reason to reduce dependence on America
lenerdenator•6m ago
Ah, yes, the best way to react to increased authoritarianism in the US is to checks notes begin doing more business with a country that is the final word in authoritarianism.
mrtksn•4m ago
I have this pet theory that is fueled with ignorance but kind of make sense to me: The correct value of the USD would be adjusted to match the tech companies sans AI when they serve 350M people instead of 8B people as AI makes software obsolete and the geopolitics and the US government behavior dismantles any network or lock in effects.
baggachipz•33m ago
It means that nations are beginning to abandon (or at least hedge against) the dollar as the world's currency, due to the host nation's instability and global political situation. "Great Again", indeed.
AureliusMA•31m ago
Layman here, from what I understand this is a major news : it means China is allowing a foreign corporation (european commercial bank) to offer Yuan currency services to clients. Given how tight of a currency control policy the CCP has, it’s quite surprising that they would let a foreign based company into their currency dealings.
decimalenough•10m ago
The yuan will never become a reserve currency as long as China maintain tight currency controls around importing and exporting it. It's very difficult to (legally) send CNY out or China.

The euro is in a much better position to be adopted as an alternative, but its share of global reserves has been flat at around 20% for years.

https://data.imf.org/en/news/imf%20data%20brief%20march%2027

jillesvangurp•6m ago
One consequence of the transition to renewable energy and electrified transport, is that oil imports will start to decline. And the dollar is of course the currency of choice for that.

The US economy and other countries that export fossil fuels will feel the impact over the next decade or so. The energy transition might go a lot quicker than people seem to expect. Currently about 20% of global car sales is electric. In some countries it's well over 50%. China of course being one of them. And they are making rapid progress with electrifying freight as well. This is already impacting their fossil fuel imports. They still import a lot.

One effect that I think people underestimate is that while it will take a long time for all the ICE vehicles to disappear, the new ones do most of the driving. So, new EVs have a relatively large impact on fuel consumption and imports pretty early on. E.g. Chinese diesel imports apparently already are being impacting by their rapid deployment of tens of thousands of electrical trucks. Soon hundreds of thousands. That's already a third of the market in China and will probably head for well over 50 in a few short years. The EU is not that far behind.

The ripple effect that's going to have on oil trading, refinery capacity, etc. is going to be substantial. Of course current geopolitics is speeding things up massively. LNG and oil scarcity is causing a lot of issues globally and countries are accelerating moves to reduce their dependence on that.