It is a matter of fact that in recent years, many major world economies have stopped reinvesting their current account surpluses precisely in US government bonds and are rather starting to buy physical gold to a greater extent. China, for instance. The demand for US government bonds is therefore very likely to be significantly weaker now than it was 10 or 20 years ago, which can also be seen in the fact that the share of dollar foreign exchange reserves from an overall global perspective has been steadily declining in recent years. At the same time, it is one of the manifestations of the so-called dedollarization. Another manifestation of dedollarization is observed within the international payment system in international trade, primarily in developing economies that are gradually switching from the dollar to local regional currencies, especially the Chinese yuan.