Communist China’s Gold Reserve Numbers Don’t Add Up, Stoking Suspicions of Secret Stockpile

A new report estimates that 2,700 metric tons of gold are ‘missing,’ even as China’s central bank boosts its reserves of the monetary metal.

AP/Mike Groll
Gold bars at the United States Mint at West Point, New York, 2012. AP/Mike Groll

Could it be that 2,700 metric tons of gold — more than half of the world’s annual global production — is being hidden in Communist China? 

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