Australia’s largest iron ore miner Fortescue headed by Twiggy Forrest has walked away from Wall Street, locking in a 14.2 billion Yuan loan from China.

At the same time the Australian Treasury issued its first Yuan bond shifting one quarter of its reserves into Yuan currency.

Fortescue Chairman Twiggy Forrest ditches the US dollar

Washington’s closest ally has bankrolled its future through China, de-dollarising its international settlements for the Yuan no doubt infuriating the US administration.

The syndicated Yuan loan was made at sovereign level fixed term of 3.8 per cent arranged by the Bank of China and Industrial Commercial Bank of China.

According to Reuters this is the first time an Australian corporation financed itself in Chinese currency.