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Delhi Declaration [ 21 ] [ 22 ]. Fred Bergsten argued that Dr Zhou's suggestion or a similar change to the international monetary system would be in the United States' best interests as well as the rest of the world's. Archived from the original on The Bretton Woods system broke down, culminating in the Nixon shock of , ending convertibility; but the US dollar has remained the de facto basis of the world monetary system, though no longer de jure , with various European currencies and the Japanese yen also being prominent in foreign exchange markets. Countries still intervene from time to time to help keep currency exchange rates relatively stable, but they usually will not fight too hard to keep the rates from moving to new levels that more accurately reflect current relative prices and expectations.