The suggestion by China’s central bank governor that the dollar be replaced as the world’s reserve currency may have been prompted by concern about the impact of the Fed’s quantitative easing on the dollar. But China has little room for manoeuvre: no good alternative reserve currency exists nor is an alternative likely to emerge any time soon.
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