Di Dongsheng, associate dean of the School of International Studies at Renmin University in Beijing, said recently that China is trying to use pandemic-caused economic shifts to challenge and replace the “dominance” of the US dollar in “global markets and trade,” in a February 4 video posted on Chinese social media. “The currency that fixes the price will eventually be the renminbi (yuan),” stated Di. Last April, Di declared the Covid-19 pandemic an opportunity “unseen in 100 years,” an opportunity to make “all seven billion people in the world pay for [China].” Di, who has “contributed to China’s foreign
