Or we could simply confiscate their sovereign gold stored in the vault of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
When the James Bond movie Goldfinger was made, it was Ian Fleming's way of trying to tell us all what had already happened... by 1964.
It's why Nixon closed the gold window in 1971 when the French wanted their gold back. We didn't have it. It was already stolen by that time.
It's why when Germany asked for a portion of their gold back recently, they were told it would take SEVEN YEARS to deliver a mere 10% of their holdings here. And it's why the delivery isn't even on schedule.
It's why we invaded Libya - the real reason. Qadafi was about to launch a gold-backed dinar. Hillary's emails reveal that this was the true motive for the invasion.
And now it's why, if the Chinese pull off a gold-backed yuan, it's Game Over Insert Gold Coin for US dollar hegemony. It will dispel what remains of the illusion of prosperity, and it will be laid bare that the US is a nation stripped of assets, one that doesn't produce wealth anymore.
Welcome to third-world America. Get ready for the riots as the entitlement class will have no nonviolent way to deal with what is coming.