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A pair of hands holding a sample banknote featuring the number "200" and a circular design in the center with the flags of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, surrounded by illustrations of native animals like a toucan and a peacock.

BRICS and the Quest for a Neutral Global Currency

The global economy is now fully multipolar in production and consumption, yet its financial backbone still runs through a single national currency. That mismatch — a 21st‑century world running on 1944 plumbing — is what BRICS is trying to correct. Not by dethroning the dollar with the renminbi, but by building a neutral clearing system that avoids the trap of replacing one hegemon with another.

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