[GreenLanternCorps]

If you embrace the Red Chinese Yuan, whose value will be determined by the whims of Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party, you deserve what happens to you.

[ClearCase_guy]

Similar to Europe deciding to become energy dependent on Russia. Might seem like a swell idea at the time, but anyone can see that it could go horribly wrong when the other party decides to do what it wants without asking permission.

[Boogieman]

How about a reserve currency that isn’t based on the whims of central banks or the whims of government central planners?

How about basing it on, I don’t know, something rare and durable and portable that retains value well. I know it’s a crazy idea, but it just might work...

[kiryandil]

There's this One Weird Trick, where you don't go around seizing foreign dollar reserves like a fricking pirate, just because some country has their money parked in banks you can get at.

Tends to make countries that are watching think about safer places for their cash.