The end of the dollar (as reserve currency)

This post started on 2013-10-21.
It contains some news articles
showing the progressive move
to the end of the dollar as world reserve currency.

2013-10-14-LAT-fi-shutdown-china

China calls for dollar to be replaced as global reserve currency
By Jim Puzzanghera
Los Angles Times, 2013-10-14

Upset that the U.S. fiscal impasse threatens to trigger a default
that would roil financial markets worldwide,
Beijing suggests 'building a de-Americanized world.'

2013-10-16-NYT-china-rails-over-us-fiscal-crisis-seeing-its-own-money-at-risk

Seeing Its Own Money at Risk, China Rails at U.S.
By MARK LANDLER
New York Times, 2013-10-16