Classic dissembling in the ancillary markets it appears, to try and make the dollar and equities look better by comparison.
It will work until it does not, then geysers here, and a deluge in financial instruments.
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception