Thursday, Sep 25, 2008
Beijing's first attempt to erect defences against the deepening U.S. financial meltdown
Reuters via SOTT: China banks told to halt lending to US banks-SCMP
BEIJING, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Chinese regulators have told domestic banks to stop interbank lending to U.S. financial institutions to prevent possible losses during the financial crisis, the South China Morning Post reported on Thursday.
The Hong Kong newspaper cited unidentified industry sources as saying the instruction from the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) applied to interbank lending of all currencies to U.S. banks but not to banks from other countries.
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1. inbreda said...
Is it just me or is this piece of news absolutely massive?
This will make the situation absolutely dire for the US. Surely no other bank of any nationality will back the US on account of the fact that without China the US stands a lot less chance of surviving this?
2. cornishman said...
Pressure being put on US Congress by VIs.
3. plato said...
At the moment this hasn't been confirmed but I doubt such action has no substance. Could be a massive tipping point for the US$. This is part of 'looking after number one' I was talking about a couple of weeks ago. The question is : Are the Chinese strong enough to do this? They are mostly a self supporting nation producing locally for their own needs,but in the world of high technology they are big importers of raw materials they rely on to produce their huge exports. At the same time they have created a middle class that have all the Western luxuries and are dependant on their booming economy. They have an unstable social environment within their own borders that they do not wish to test.
If this materialises others will probably follow and I would recommend finding a deep bunker somewhere remote with some of p4's conserves and Air Con of course.
4. beartil2010 said...
This is one of those small pieces of news that surfaces and seems to be absolutely massive in import.
Not much detail or corroboration though. If it's true - and I well believe it could be - it could be one the big nails in the dollar's coffin.
5. malct said...
this truly is scary
no one wants this but
perhaps they have no choice
I remember this being dragged about four years ago
planned?
6. planning4acrash said...
China will be protected, because the UN's documents put China as the model for a world government. It has won more awards than any other country for its policies, including one child fascism. A world Carbon Tax, payable to, get this, fraudsters that include the Imaginary, I mean Feral, I mean Federal Reserve, ECB, BOE (If it survives) and the World Bank. It will be put in place to fund the world government, based on fake science, and the effect of it, will be a fake market that leads to tyranny. Heck, Australia of all places is saying it will give carbon credits to 1 child families, presumably taking them from 2+ child families, even though the place has capacity to increase its population 10 fold at the very least! This idea presumably is being trialed there, because, if you can convince the proles to accept this nonsense there, you could get them to accept it everywhere. Heck, the Aussies have been led to think that their entire way of life will end with a single boatload of immigrants in what is the most bountiful, least populated country in the world! So they have been well prepared by the fanestream media this past decade.
7. malct said...
just a thought for a quiet corner
hope some of us are saving all this insight - to hard drive, cd, dvd, paper copy
'we' may need it, soon!
8. montesquieu said...
@planning4acrash:
Small point but nearly all of Australia is uninhabitable (at least without worse than Arizona/Texas levels of energy use) and barely has enough water in its main conurbations to support current population. Ten fold increase in population? Actually a doubling would be enough to cause major problems.