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.
“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