Hacker News with Generative AI: Global Trade

Dollar Dominance in Peril: China's Digital RMB Settlements Now for 200 Countries (the420.in)
In a move shaking the very foundations of global finance, the People’s Bank of China has launched its full-scale digital RMB cross-border settlement system, now seamlessly connected to the ten ASEAN nations and six Middle Eastern countries.
Russia's Dead Drop Drug Revolution (globalinitiative.net)
There has been a groundbreaking shift in the global drug trade, pioneered in Russia and now spreading globally.
China Became the Largest Car Exporter (nytimes.com)
Just two decades ago, China had little capacity to make cars, and owning one was considered novel. Today, China produces and exports more cars than any other country in the world.
A New World Order Is Here, and It Looks a Lot Like Mercantilism (bloomberg.com)
“The crisis was not a failure of the free-market system,” declared George W. Bush in November 2008. “And the answer is not to try to reinvent that system. It is to fix the problems we face, make the reforms we need and move forward with the free markets principles that have delivered prosperity and hope to people across the world.”
Global trade woes mount as shipping costs rise (dw.com)
Bali's stone sarcophagi included global goods (atlasobscura.com)
Yerba mate, from Paraguay to Syria (globalvoices.org)