{"id":26846,"date":"2019-07-10T05:23:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T12:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldco.com\/?p=26846"},"modified":"2022-12-29T13:16:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T21:16:59","slug":"china-buys-gold-7th-straight-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldco.com\/china-buys-gold-7th-straight-month\/","title":{"rendered":"China Buys Gold for 7th Straight Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-07-08\/china-officially-buys-gold-7th-straight-month-treasury-holdings-tumble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">seventh consecutive month<\/a>, the Chinese government announced that it has added to its gold holdings. The latest published figures are those from May, in which the Chinese government officially added 10 tons of the yellow metal to its reserves. While most analysts speculate that China\u2019s official gold reserves and gold purchases are very likely higher than what is being reported, the official figures are all that we have to go by.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government remains keen on diversifying away from the dollar. China continues both to purchase gold and to sell off its holdings of US Treasury securities. Whereas <a href=\"https:\/\/ticdata.treasury.gov\/Publish\/mfh.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chinese holdings of Treasury securities<\/a> were $1.18 trillion in April 2018, they\u2019ve decreased by $70 billion to $1.11 trillion in April 2019. Those sales of Treasury securities and purchases of gold have been going hand in hand, almost as though China is using its sales of US debt to help fund its gold purchases.<\/p>\n<p>As the world\u2019s largest gold producer and world\u2019s largest gold consumer, China will continue to drive world gold markets in the future. There is widespread speculation that China\u2019s gold purchases are intended to back the yuan with gold in a bid to turn the yuan into the world\u2019s reserve currency.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no secret that China is aiming at great power status, and its ability to become a world power will largely be dependent on the strength of its currency. Just as the US dollar became the world\u2019s reserve currency because it was considered \u201cas good as gold,\u201d so too will the yuan likely be dependent on gold for its rise to prominence. Expect the Chinese government to continue its string of gold purchases in the future, and potentially even to ramp them up as the trade spat with the US continues to fester.<\/p>\n<p>While many Americans look apprehensively at China\u2019s bid to make the yuan the world\u2019s reserve currency, there\u2019s no denying that a world financial system based on a gold-backed currency would bring more soundness and stability to the financial system. The US government appears to have ceded that to the Chinese and isn\u2019t about to take it back. That\u2019s all the more reason for US investors to stay ahead of the curve and protect their assets from the coming de-dollarization by <a href=\"https:\/\/goldco.com\/gold-ira\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investing in gold<\/a> too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the seventh consecutive month, the Chinese government announced that it has added to its gold holdings. The latest published figures are those from May, in which the Chinese government officially added 10 tons of the yellow metal to its reserves. 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