The system is built so that if there is a deleveraging, people scramble to the dollars because they need them to pay their debt. If China and Brazil decide to trade against each other in another currency or any other block of countries would decide to do that, all of these countries have dollar denominated debt on their balance sheet. The only way to get dollars is via trade growth. That explains a lot of the link between deleveraging and dollar strength that you were referring to before.

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