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Re:China's Subprime Crisis Is Here by khuey on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @01:05PM (#11119829)
No, they don't. There's only 1.4 trillion dollars in circulation.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12773.htm

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Re:China's Subprime Crisis Is Here by jcoffland on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @02:30PM (#11120522)
Not all of their cash reserves are denominated in US dollars.
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Re:China's Subprime Crisis Is Here by khuey on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @04:43PM (#11121679)
There's around 5 trillion US dollars worth of hard currency in the world. http://gizmodo.com/5995301/how-much-money-is-there-on-earth 80% of it is not sitting in a vault in China.
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