Thursday, March 19, 2009

Win-Win-Win: Chinese Edition

clipped from atimes.com
There is mounting evidence that China's central bank is undertaking the process
of divesting itself of longer-dated US Treasuries in favor of shorter-dated
ones.



There is also mounting evidence that China's increasingly energetic new
campaign of capitalizing on the global crisis by making resource buys across
the globe may be (1) helping its

central bank to decrease exposure to the dollar, while (2) simultaneously
positioning China to make much greater profit on its investment of its reserves
into hard assets whose prices are now greatly beaten down, while (3) also
affording it greatly increased control of strategic resources and the
geopolitical clout that goes with it. This is turning out to be a win-win-win
situation for China as it capitalizes upon the important opportunities afforded
it by the present global crisis.