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Dollar Losing Ground? Brazil's Lula Makes Chinese Yuan a Permanent Part of Debt Strategy | Vantage - Firstpost

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DW NOTE

Brazil isn't replacing the dollar — it's adding a yuan tranche to its debt issuance because Beijing will buy it and Washington might not. Lula calls this sovereignty. A more accurate term would be vendor financing: China lends you the money to buy Chinese goods, denominated in a currency China controls. Brazil's dollar debt still dwarfs its yuan exposure, and will for years. This is a marginal shift in funding mix, not a monetary realignment.

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