TLDR: Washington’s $55 billion IMF quota increase, criticised by the WSJ as a bad deal, is better understood as a strategic, one-off liquidity concession to China — wrapped in multilateral optics — to head off a destabilising dollar crunch and BRI unraveling. It also helps accelerate America’s pivot away from weakening multilateral influence toward more controllable bilateral dollar swap arrangements.
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