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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13367007/China-buys-huge-135billion-stockpile-gold-raising-fears-Beijing-preparing-invade-Taiwan-protect-economy-event-Western-sanctions.html

China buys huge £135billion stockpile of gold raising fears
Beijing is preparing to invade Taiwan and protect its economy
in the event of Western sanctions

. . .

What DOES it mean ?

Kinda LOOKS like padding in case of a Taiwan
invasion.

Could ALSO be market manipulation - buy lots
and lots and then DUMP it to crash the large
gold market.

Gold IS over-priced these days. China buying
large quantities may be behind that. Alas lots
of western interests/citizens have been paying
over 2k for gold for awhile now. What if the
price was suddenly cut in half ??? Some of us
DO remember the silver-market scam - where
the Hunt brothers over-bought, artificially
raising the price through the roof, and then
DUMPED it all. That was profit-motive, but
in the case of China it may be mil/strategic.

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