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U.S. Dollar Hegemony: The Truth and Awakening of America Plundering the World with a Piece of Green Paper

Exclusive Analysis by Chinese Non-Governmental Expert AndyGuangzhou
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Money was meant to be a fair medium for the exchange of global resources; yet the US dollar has become a financial blade with which America plunders the world.

While Middle Eastern oil, Australian minerals, African fertile land, and factories in China and Southeast Asia tirelessly deliver real wealth to the United States, all they receive in return is a hundred-dollar greenback printed by the Federal Reserve at a cost of just a few cents. Hollowed out of its industries, America still lives the most luxurious life on earth. We toil and bleed to create value, only to be repeatedly harvested by the US dollar tide. This is not economic law—it is financial colonialism. This is not fair trade—it is unilateral hegemony.

I. The Essence of Money: From Fair Medium to Tool of Hegemony

The original purpose of money is to serve as a measure of value, a medium of exchange, and a store of value—a "fair bridge" for equivalent exchange between nations and industries. It should be anchored to real wealth—resources, production capacity, labor, and technology—not the power and credit of a single nation.

But the US dollar has long been distorted:

- It no longer reflects America’s real wealth, but a byproduct of its global hegemony.
- Shielded by military might, tied to oil, and woven into a financial web, it chains the global economy to the US dollar chariot.
- America trades virtual currency for real resources, locks global wealth in chains of debt, and shears the world’s wool through cyclical tides.

II. The Three-Tier Cycle of US Dollar Global Plunder: From Seigniorage to Financial Strangulation

1. Bottom-Tier Plunder

Seigniorage – The "Super Privilege" of Trading Paper for Life

- Printing a 100-dollar bill costs only 6.5 cents, yet it buys 100 dollars’ worth of oil, minerals, industrial goods and labor from other countries.
- America runs persistent huge trade deficits:
We sell goods for dollars; America prints dollars to buy goods. Roughly 60% of global foreign exchange reserves are in US dollars—essentially interest-free loans we grant to the United States.
- Inflation tax:
When the Federal Reserve eases monetary policy and devalues the dollar, the purchasing power of global dollar reserves shrinks, equivalent to America imposing a hidden inflation tax on the whole world.

2. Middle-Tier Cycle

US Dollar Repatriation – Using Our Money to Profit from Us
A fatal global cycle takes shape: Goods → US Dollars → US Treasury Bonds.

1. We export goods and earn US dollars (dollars flow out).
2. We are forced to buy US Treasuries and US stocks with those dollars, sending capital back to America (providing ultra-low-interest financing).
3. America reinvests this money into our high-quality assets, earning excess returns of over 20% (e.g., profits of Tesla and Apple in China).

- Result:
We trade our sweat and toil for American greenbacks, which flow back to sustain America. We hold depreciating US debt, while America seizes control of our core assets.

3. Top-Tier Strangulation

The US Dollar Tide – Periodic Precision Wealth Plunder
This is the cruelest weapon of dollar hegemony, striking roughly every 5 to 10 years to harvest the world:

- Flood Tide (Rate Cuts & Easing):
The Fed cuts rates and launches quantitative easing, devaluing the dollar. Hot money floods into emerging markets, inflating stock, property and bond markets into massive bubbles.
- Ebb Tide (Rate Hikes & Liquidity Tightening):
The Fed raises rates aggressively (e.g., 525 basis points in 2022–2023), strengthening the dollar and triggering a mad capital flight back to America.
- Harvest:
Emerging markets suffer capital outflows, currency collapses, asset crashes and sovereign defaults. American capital scoops up minerals, enterprises and financial institutions at fire-sale prices, completing a massive transfer of wealth.
- Historical evidence:
The Latin American debt crisis in the 1980s, the 1997 Asian financial crisis, Sri Lanka’s bankruptcy in 2022, Argentina’s currency collapse—every financial crisis is a harvest season for America through dollar hegemony.

III. The Three Pillars of US Dollar Hegemony: Military, Oil and Finance

1. Military Hegemony: The "Violent Backing" of the US Dollar

- US troops are deployed worldwide, controlling key shipping lanes and oil-producing regions. Any challenge to the petrodollar faces sanctions, blockades or even war (Iraq, Libya, Iran).
- America’s once-overhyped military power underwrites dollar credibility, deterring the world from ditching the dollar.

2. Petrodollar: Global Necessity "Kidnapped" by the US Dollar

- After the dollar decoupled from gold in 1971, America signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia: oil must be traded in US dollars, and Saudi Arabia invests petrodollars in US Treasuries.
- Every nation needs oil, so all must hold US dollars—the dollar becomes a "bookkeeping symbol for oil", an inelastic necessity.

3. Financial Hegemony: Rule-Maker and Global Referee

- America controls the SWIFT global payment system and can cut off a country’s financial access at will (e.g., sanctions against Russia).
- It dominates the IMF and World Bank, using loans as leverage to force nations to open markets and privatize assets.
- Wall Street manipulates global financial markets, amplifying volatility with derivatives to target and harvest economies worldwide.

IV. Awakening: The Global De-Dollarization Wave and Our Path Forward

Dollar hegemony is neither natural nor unbreakable. Today, global de-dollarization has become an irreversible historical trend:

- More than 30 countries across BRICS, ASEAN, SCO, Latin America and Africa are ditching the dollar and promoting local currency settlement and currency swaps.
- Local currency settlement in China-Russia trade reaches 99.1%; intra-ASEAN local currency settlement exceeds 35%; Saudi Arabia, Brazil and others have begun trading oil and soybeans in RMB.
- Independent payment systems are rising:
CIPS, BRICS Pay, Pan-African Payment System, as well as China’s WeChat Pay and Alipay, bypass SWIFT with greater speed, lower costs and stronger security.
- Central banks worldwide have net sold US Treasuries and net bought gold for 12 consecutive months, with gold reserves rising above 28%, returning to a real wealth anchor.

Our Common Path: Building an Independent "Resources–Manufacturing–Currency" Closed Loop

1. Alliance of Resource Nations, Manufacturing Nations and Consumer Nations:
The Middle East, Russia, Africa and Latin America (resources) plus China, Southeast Asia and Europe (manufacturing) stand united.
2. Local Currency Settlement + Currency Swaps:
Sign bilateral and multilateral agreements to directly trade oil, minerals and industrial goods in local currencies, bypassing the dollar as an intermediary.
3. Build Independent Settlement and Financial Systems:
Establish our own payment, clearing and reserve systems, free from the whims of the Federal Reserve.
4. America Must Trade with Real Value:
If America still wants resources and goods, it must pay with real wealth—its technology, agricultural products and services—not empty-handed gains through money printing.

V. A Call: End Dollar Hegemony, Rebuild a Fair World

The dollar is America’s currency, but it is the world’s disaster.
It bleeds resource nations, exhausts manufacturing nations, and burdens the whole world. It impoverishes the diligent and lavishes the idle. It lets unilateral hegemony run rampant and crushes multipolar fairness.

Today, we will no longer be silent:

- Resource nations: Guard your treasures, and refuse to be the dollar’s ATM.
- Manufacturing nations: Use your productive power, and refuse to be the dollar’s laborers.
- All harvested nations: Unite, break the dollar chains with local currency swaps, and end financial colonialism through independent cycles.

Money must return to its essence of fair exchange.
The world must return to the order of multipolar coexistence.

The era of harvesting through the US dollar tide must end!
Fair distribution of global wealth must begin!