By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing and Tracy Alloway in London
Published: June 20 2011 20:07 | Last updated: June 20 2011 20:07

China began diversifying away from the US dollar in earnest in the first four months of this year, most likely by buying far more European government debt than US dollar assets, according to estimates from Standard Chartered Bank.
China’s foreign exchange reserves expanded by around $200bn in the first four months of the year, with three-quarters of the new inflow invested abroad in non-US dollar assets, the bank estimated.
“It certainly appears that China’s finally following through on its policy to diversify its foreign reserve holdings away from the US dollar,” said Stephen Green, the bank’s chief China economist.
For over six years, Beijing has continued to accumulate US government debt even as officials insisted they wanted to reduce the weighting of US dollar assets in foreign exchange reserves. Between December 2007 and March this year, China’s foreign exchange reserves doubled to $3,044bn and over that time most analysts believe the proportion of US dollar assets remained relatively steady at between 60 and 70 per cent of the total.
Beijing, however, routes purchases through custodian banks and overseas financial centres, such as London and Hong Kong, to disguise its offshore dealings.
Standard Chartered compared China’s inflow of new foreign exchange reserves to net purchases of US government debt by buyers in China, Hong Kong and London. These purchases fell dramatically in the first four months of this year to $46bn – equivalent to just 24 per cent of the $196bn in foreign exchange that China accumulated over the same period.
Mr Green said it was possible that China had found a way to disguise its purchases of US government debt – or could be buying riskier US assets that don’t show up in monthly data.
In recent months, Chinese leaders have repeatedly pledged to aid European countries struggling with sovereign debt crises.
“Even if Beijing were not concerned about the US fiscal situation and/or the US dollar, the yields on offer in the euro market would likely be attractive enough for it to diversify into Europe at the margin,” Mr Green said.
There is no sign China is reducing its existing holdings of US dollar assets, remaining the largest foreign owner of US securities, with $1,611bn by June 30 2010, according to the US Treasury.

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En los 4 primeros meses de este año, China ha invertido tres cuartas partes del incremento de sus reservas fuera del dólar, según datos de Standard Chartered que hoy son portada en el Financial Times. Si Bernanke deja de comprar deuda usana ahora que acaba el QEII, ¿quién va a seguir comprando?

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Parábola para todos los públicos:


Vamos a suponer que cada vez que sales a la calle, un vecino yonky te encañona con un revólver y te obliga a comparle una "chuta" usada por 100€...

Ahora imagina, que después de un tiempo soportando este acoso, un buen día, por el vecindario se extiende la noticia como un reguero de pólvora... El tipo no tiene ni para comprar balas. Es más, siempre ha amenazado con un arma vacía...

¿Quien le va a comprar ahora sus jeringuillas USAdas?

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Si alguien que entienda del asunto nos explicara las consecuencias…

Es el momento de pedir una hipoteca en dólares, hay que comprar yuanes, esperar dos meses para comprar el Iphone-no porque se fabrica en China, llenamos el depósito de gasolina… ¿?

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PUNTO ESENCIAL : China necesita dolares $ por cohone ( quiera o no quiera ) porque el Petróleo y las Materias Primas ( carbón australiano, niquel , aluminio, cobre chileno, uranio, etc se venden en DOLARES USA .

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Me gustaría saber que moneda se ha vendido en los primeros 4 meses del año por un importe de 150 000 dolares ?

100 000 millones de libras esterlinas , 140 000 millones de Francos Suizos , 110 000 millones de EUROS ?

Quien escribió este artículo ? Un becario analfabeto ?

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PUNTO NUMERO 2 : China necesita dolares $ por cohone ( quiera o no quiera ) porque el Petróleo y las Materias Primas ( carbón australiano, niquel , aluminio, cobre chileno, uranio, etc se venden en DOLARES USA .