Di Dongsheng, associate dean of the School of International Studies at Renmin University in Beijing, said recently that China is trying to use pandemic-caused economic shifts to challenge and replace the “dominance” of the US dollar in “global markets and trade,” in a February 4 video posted on Chinese social media.
“The currency that fixes the price
will eventually be the renminbi (yuan),” stated Di. Last April, Di
declared the Covid-19 pandemic an opportunity “unseen in 100 years,” an
opportunity to make “all seven billion people in the world pay for
[China].”
Di, who has “contributed to China’s foreign economic
policy,” has regularly been a part of “policy discussions and overseas
visits with various bodies of the Chinese regime, such as the foreign
ministry.” Last year a video of his explicitly admitted the Chinese
Communist Party (CCP) influences the US through “old friends” on Wall
Street. (...)
