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Between 2019 and 2024, China's exports surged by 43%, rising from $2.5 trillion to $3.6 trillion. Imports increased by 25%, growing from $2.1 trillion to $2.6 trillion. This rapid growth drove a 130% expansion in China's trade surplus, more than doubling from $430 billion to $990 billion.
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Retail reacts to price.❎
Smart capital reacts to structure.✅

When volume is low and sentiment is divided,
retail hesitates.
Professionals observe.💎
High-upside asymmetric assets are not built at the top.
They are accumulated during uncertainty.
Snowball today is not a finished empire.
$雪球 is a live experiment in economic compression.
A shrinking supply.✅A growing base.✅An emotionally attached holder class.✅And a narrative forming around national identity.✅
Smart money asks only three questions:
Is supply structurally decreasing?Is community growth organic?Is there a catalyst pipeline forming?
Snowball answer is : yes✅
then volatility is entry, not exit.
Liquidity cycles always return.
When they do, capital searches for high beta assets with tight supply.
What happens when demand expansion meets compressed supply?
Price does not move linearly.
It reprices.
The difference between retail and smart money is :
timing.
Retail waits for confirmation.
Smart money builds before confirmation.
History does not reward the loudest.
It rewards the earliest disciplined accumulators.
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In early February 2026, while the crowd was frozen in shock watching blood-red screens — gold $XAU collapsing 21%, silver getting crushed 41% — something far more important was happening off-camera.
No panic.
No headlines.
No emergency press conferences.
China didn’t react.
China executed.
That crash wasn’t an accident. It looked more like a clearing operation — a financial “intermission” before an entirely different monetary order steps onto the stage.
1. WHERE DID $634 BILLION GO?
Data straight from the U.S. Treasury reveals a number Wall Street prefers not to highlight.
In 2013, China held $1.316 trillion in U.S. Treasuries — the largest creditor on Earth.

Today, that figure has dropped to $682.6 billion, the lowest level since 2008.

This isn’t pocket change. It’s larger than the GDP of Switzerland or Sweden. And notably, there was no visible panic selling.
Money didn’t disappear.
It relocated.
2. THE “7-PIECE PLAN”: HOW LONG HAS CHINA BEEN PREPARING?

What we’re witnessing isn’t a short-term response. It’s a script written years ago, now entering its most intense chapter.
Piece 1: Gold — Price Is Irrelevant
China’s central bank bought gold for 14 consecutive months, ignoring whether prices were $3,000, $4,000, or $5,000 per ounce.
This isn’t about price.
It’s about monetary sovereignty.
Gold still makes up only about 8.5% of China’s reserves. To reach Russia’s ~30% level, China would need 5,000–7,000 more tons — nearly $1 trillion worth. This race has barely started.

Piece 2: Choking Global Silver Supply
Since the start of the year, China has allowed only 44 companies to export silver, effectively controlling 60–70% of global supply.
Silver has already been in deficit for five consecutive years. This move didn’t tighten the room — it removed the oxygen.

Piece 3: CIPS — The Highway Around America
After watching Russia lose $300 billion when cut off from SWIFT, China drew a clear conclusion: payment systems are weapons.
CIPS now connects nearly 5,000 banks in 124 countries, with transaction volume growing over 40% annually. A parallel financial highway — no Washington approval required.

Piece 4: mBridge & the Digital Yuan
A digital settlement alliance including China, Hong Kong, Thailand, the UAE — and most shockingly, Saudi Arabia.
The architect of the petrodollar joining a China-led payment system isn’t a signal.
It’s a quiet declaration.

Piece 5: Trade Without the Dollar
Roughly one-third of China’s trade is now settled in yuan. Each percentage point shifted is permanent demand for dollars that never comes back.

Piece 6: The Debt Gravity Trap
Countries like Kenya are converting dollar debt into yuan debt. To repay, they must earn yuan — not dollars. Financial gravity is moving east.

Piece 7: Monetary Power Becomes State Policy
For the first time, “monetary power” sits alongside military and technology power in China’s official 2026–2030 national strategy.

This isn’t defense.
This is preparation for a post-USD world.
3. THE SILVER MARKET PARADOX: 356 SEATS, ONE CHAIR
On COMEX, there are currently 356 paper claims for every single ounce of registered physical silver.
If just 3% of holders demand delivery, the system breaks instantly.
While screen prices were smashed, physical silver traded at:
Japan: ~$130
Kuwait: ~$106
Paper price and real price are living in different universes.
4. WALL STREET DIDN’T PANIC — THEY BOUGHT
After the early-February 2026 collapse, the most revealing signal wasn’t fear — it was calm.
JP Morgan raised gold $XAU targets to $6,300.
Citi spoke openly about $150 silver $XAG .
Morgan Stanley advised clients to allocate 20% of portfolios to gold — unprecedented.
They aren’t watching price screens.
They’re watching central bank flows.

CONCLUSION: THIS WASN’T THE END — IT WAS INTERMISSION

The 21–41% crash in early February 2026 had all the fingerprints of a classic liquidity event: shake confidence, flush weak hands, accumulate quietly.
China is exiting the dollar via gold and silver.
Silver is facing the most severe physical shortage in modern history.
Trust is evaporating — metal is not.
Don’t stare at red numbers on a screen.
Watch the empty vaults — and the central banks filling theirs.
History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes.
In 1970, gold fell 50% before exploding multiple times higher.
If the rhyme holds, we’re standing right before the train leaves the station.

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