India has signed an agreement with the United Arab Emirates that will allow it to settle trade in rupees instead of dollars, boosting India's efforts to cut transaction costs by eliminating dollar conversions. During a visit by India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the UAE on Saturday, the two countries also agreed to set up a real-time payment link to facilitate easier cross-border money transfers. The two agreements will enable "seamless cross-border transactions and payments, and foster greater economic cooperation", said a statement from the Reserve Bank of India on Saturday.
Possibly! Which, in turn, would weaken the USs positive relationships with those countries as they’re pressured on multiple fronts (losses from trade competition, fallout from the Russian conflict, growing unrest from within the country) and thus accelerate dedollarization and then inflation. That would take time, though, and require another point of rupture that I certainly can’t predict!
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