Thread by @honzacern1

CHINA CURBS U.S. TREASURIES — AND THE SILVER SIGNAL NOBODY WANTS TO SEE 🧵

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China is quietly telling its banks to limit exposure to U.S. Treasuries.

Official reason? “Concentration risk & volatility.”
Real reason? They don’t trust the exit.

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Treasuries are no longer “risk-free.”
They’re policy tools, weaponized by deficits, geopolitics, and refinancing stress.

China sees what’s coming — too much debt, too little real demand.

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Here’s the key part everyone skips:

When large holders reduce sovereign bonds, they don’t move into cash.

They move into real assets or strategic materials.

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Gold gets the headlines.
But silver is where the system breaks.

Because silver isn’t just money —it’s energy, electronics, defense, solar, AI, and grids.

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China already dominates silver refining and industrial demand.

Reducing Treasury exposure while controlling silver flows is not diversification.

It’s positioning.

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Now connect the dots:

• China limits U.S. debt exposure
• Physical silver availability tightens globally
• Paper silver price stays “stable”

That’s not balance.
That’s decoupling in progress.

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Paper markets price silver as a financial asset.
China treats silver as a strategic input.
Those two views cannot coexist forever.

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When Treasuries lose credibility, collateral chains snap.

When collateral snaps, derivatives scramble.
And silver sits right in the middle of that plumbing.

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This is why physical silver keeps disappearing —
even while the paper price pretends nothing is happening.

Same movie.
Different asset.

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China isn’t “dumping America.”
It’s hedging against a disorderly reset.

And silver?
Silver is the asset that doesn’t need permission to reprice.

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Treasuries can be rolled.
Currencies can be printed.
Narratives can be managed.
Physical silver can’t.

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This isn’t about China vs the U.S.
It’s about what survives when trust evaporates.

And Beijing just told you:
Trust is thinning.

#Silver #PhysicalSilver #Macro

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