As other people on this thread will point out the Yuan is not close to replacing the dollar, nor is any other aspect of the Chinese financial system highly competitive, even with the staggering rise of corruption in the US.

But this is yet another indicator of the loss of soft power, which is much farther gone than, I'd say, 90% of Americans realize.

The supposedly smart people in the tech industry should be alarmed by the loss of soft power. A lot of tech revenue comes from overseas, but if US technology is seen to be the tool of an unreliable, belligerent, corrupt, authoritarian government, that revenue will evaporate, and it will happen faster than, for example, fundamental international finance changes. And yet these supposedly smart people have lined up behind our government.

It's a variation of the maxim "Don't make the customer think", what you want them to do should be the default action and you want them to do without thinking.

For some people in Europe now, they think about whether the thing they are buying/subscribing to is in the US or owned by a US company in a way that simply didn't happen in the recent past.

And all foreign transactions were done with a USD intermediary until the USA started making countries and banks question whether that was a good idea.