Do not loose sight of this reality.China and other nations continue to spend their excess US Dollar holdings (inflated dollars I must add) to purchase PHYSICAL gold..Not Paper ETFs but real gold.
Regardless of how much manipulation of the price of gold occurs, this in order to make fiat dollars look good, in the end gold will prevail.
Playing the gold long game will likely win out.
Building a Mineral Bank by buying under valued in the ground proven ozs will eventually pay off really well. imho
https://www.bullionbullscanada.com/index.php/forum/12-gold-silver-talk/32881-gold-war-china-s-second-announcement-of-more-gold?start=10#33829