You can buy with RMB in a lot of countries outside the West, if they have integrated UnionPay or AliPay into their payment processors. But more importantly, yo

You can buy with RMB in a lot of countries outside the West, if they have integrated UnionPay or AliPay into their payment processors. But more importantly, you can buy a lot of stuff from the factory of the world. Which is why a lot of countries don't mind holding the RMB. Just not enough for it to become a reserve currency, and certainly no one wants it to become the petroyuan.