As of the end of the year the Shanghai Exchange has seen 2,596 tonnes in withdrawals of gold bullion.
Total deliveries since its inception in 2009 are 10,510 tonnes.
"Where such a shift in power is in favor of the governing elite, Power will achieve its murderous potential. It simply waits for an excuse, an event of some sort, an assassination, a massacre in a neighboring country, an attempted coup, a famine, or a natural disaster, to justify the beginning of murder en masse. Most state sponsored murder occurs under the cover of war, revolution, or guerrilla war, or in their aftermath."
R. J. Rummel