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Mahathir's gold-backed currency -- loose talk or pan-Asian plan?
By Ronan Manly
BullionStar.com, Singapore
Friday, June 28, 2019
While the nonstop flows of physical gold into countries such as China and India are a constant reminder to the world of the importance of gold to Asian societies, gold got a high-profile endorsement of another kind in Asia recently when Malaysia’s minister Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad proposed a gold-backed regional currency for Asia.
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Tuesday, June 4, 2019
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In front of Asia's leaders and media in Tokyo May 30 at the aptly named "International Conference on the Future of Asia," whose theme was "Seeking a New Global Order -- Overcoming the Chaos," Mahathir opened the conference with a keynote speech and dialogue session. He lost no time in criticising the dangers of a U.S.-dominated unipolar world and the instability of the world's reserve currency, the fiat U.S. dollar.
It was in this context that Mahathir suggested a gold-based currency that could be used for international trade and investment between Asian economies and that would serve as an alternative to dependence on the U.S. dollar. ...
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