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The Financial Times: The fundamental reason China will struggle to dethrone the dollar

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Last week's Brics summit is disappearing in the rear-view mirror and with it, mercifully, some of the wildly unrealistic discussion of a new currency issued by the grouping's five emerging market members — aimed at dethroning the dollar.

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