{"id":701418,"date":"2026-07-01T12:26:56","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=701418"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:56:29","slug":"are-china-and-usa-moving-to-currency-backed-by-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=701418","title":{"rendered":"Are China and USA moving to currency backed by gold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Interesting ideas in the below video of what is going on between China and US financial policies wrt gold backed currencies.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>1. China\u2019s banks restricting retail paper gold access and raising margins<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>2. Speculative thesis: paper markets suppress gold prices<\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>3. Central bank buying as evidence of a shift toward physical gold<\/b><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><b>244 tonnes<\/b>\u00a0of central bank purchases in Q1.<\/li>\n<li><b>10 of the last 11 quarters<\/b>\u00a0exceeding <b>200 tonnes<\/b>\u00a0of purchases.<\/li>\n<li>Gold now represents a larger share of global reserves than U.S.\u00a0Treasuries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><b>4. Building a parallel gold-clearing system in Asia<\/b><\/div>\n<div>The system is intended to:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Emphasize physical delivery rather than paper settlement.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Expand vault capacity .<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Support yuan-denominated commodity pricing anchored by deliverable physical gold.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><b>5. Speculation about a U.S. policy response<\/b><\/div>\n<div>The U.S. officially has <b>8,000 tonnes<\/b>\u00a0of gold. \u00a0At a market price near <b>US$4,000\/oz<\/b>. a market value of over <b>US$1 trillion<\/b>. References are made to research discussing the potential monetization of U.S. assets and to proposals for a <b>50-year Treasury bond redeemable in either dollars or gold<\/b>, attributed to <b>Judy Shelton<\/b>.<\/div>\n<div>The timing is uncertain and notes that could result in\u00a0substantial dollar depreciation rather than an official gold revaluation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Executive Summary<\/b><\/div>\n<div>The discussion centers on the view that the global gold market may be entering a structural transition from leveraged paper trading toward physical settlement, with China positioned as a key driver.<\/div>\n<div>On the U.S. side, participants speculate about the possibility of future gold-linked Treasury securities or a revaluation of official U.S. gold reserves.<\/div>\n<div>Overall, the consensus is that physical gold markets, central bank demand, and evolving market infrastructure warrant close monitoring.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z_xvkbGWauU&#038;t=1s\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z_xvkbGWauU&#038;t=1s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting ideas in the below video of what is going on between China and US financial policies wrt gold backed currencies. 1. China\u2019s banks restricting retail paper gold access and raising margins 2. Speculative thesis: paper markets suppress gold prices &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=701418\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701423,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701418\/revisions\/701423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}