China prepares to launch the world’s first official e-currency

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The introduction of the digital yuan will initially make little difference. But over time it could change the way central banks conduct monetary policy TheWorldIn2021

HERE IS A good chance that the digital yuan will enter circulation in 2021. It is a debut that will initially make little difference, but could, over time, change the way central banks conduct monetary policy.

The People’s Bank of China has filed more than 100 patent applications for a digital currency and has overseen a range of trials, putting the e-yuan into use in a few cities and on several apps. So far the experiments have gone smoothly, and soon people will have the option of downloading a government-issued digital wallet. Unlike commercial ones such as WeChat Pay and Alipay, the official version will be equivalent to an account at the central bank with the same solidity as hard cash.

For the millions who already use a smartphone instead of a debit card, it will feel like just another payment app. Yet some talk of digital currency as a revolutionary product that could spell trouble for banks as people withdraw money from savings accounts and put it directly into their ultra-safe official e-wallets.

In China the central bank is not trying to reinvent monetary policy—at least not yet. Its motivations derive from more immediate challenges. Given the rise of mobile payments, it worries that the big tech platforms have too much power. The digital yuan will offer an alternative. It will also give China a conduit for moving money across its borders without having to rely on swift, a global payments system that comes under American influence.

 

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Once when international digital currency became a norm, U.S dollars will worth like yesterday's newspaper.

How can we sabotage this, fellow Americans?

I still can't tell the difference between digital currency and e-payment.

Commie coin.

Centralized crypto is the very antithesis of the future. Decentralized currency is the way.

I wonder how anyone can pay anything with digital currency if there is a prolonged internet outage like many of us are experiencing now...

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The west will take a while, but real/physical currency is going the way of 8-tracks. In China it's already difficult to buy anything with cash.

One world Currency should begin towards the end of Armageddon Biden Presidency.

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Notable changes.PRINTING of currency is avoided ,U can track TRANSACTIONS And CRIMES will REDUCE FOR A BETTER TOMORROW.

Being able to selectively deactivate anyone's money in milliseconds? Transfer it to someone else? Prevent them from buying food? Confiscate all their holdings to pay off loans?

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The Fed is working on an e-currency also.

Yup,no cash in the future means even more power and clampdown by the govt.

$ETH blockchain?

The government has too much power also...

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This is significant.

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Definitely a plan you can trust.

Make sure it doesnt have any virus. They are gud at tht..

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Ni tu confías en China....ni china confía en ti.... estoy cansado....enseñar las pautas cartas faroleros....

Why was Trump banned?

Kinda misses the point no?

Meet one of the accomplishments of COVID-19. China couldn’t pull this stunt months ago

I’ve been hoping we’d modernize our payment systems with something like Wechat. Maybe this will bulldoze the way forward for countries outside of China

Will make no difference as Chinese banking system is a mess.

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The Cabal 'Cashless Society' biggest pilot...

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China jumping onto the Bitcoin train

That's why they always ahead .... We build walls they build ewallets

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In unrelated news, Hunter Biden opens up an e-wallet account.

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justinzgoh how can china move the digital yuan ... without an intermediary? will the neighboring countries accept the yuan as payment?

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And presumably capture the data?

Russia will be next

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I have been tell CyrilRamaphosa n his predecessor that we need e-currency to stop corruption. This will allow the government to monitor the movement of money n prevent over spending. But as they u can't teach n old dog new stricks

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Removing SWIFT is a big move indeed. Huge shot across the US bow.

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Maybe more countries should follow this example? I guess this is only the beginning of the play ♟🀄

Once again China blazes the trail

They actually attempted Xi coin already last year, even taking it to such an extreme as forbidding the use of cash to get it to stick. According to dissidents, it's an utter disaster. Apparently they're trying to reboot it.

Just another measure of Control...CCP will have control of the people and it will spread around the world!

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China is way ahead of everyone else.

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So...basically Panda PayPal? Still central bank controlled FIAT currency - just online format.

Well, I believe most countries are waking up to big tech heaving too much power.

Soon to become standard all over the world

The spread of digital currencies could become a weapon to kill the hegemony of the US dollar.

With Biden in power, soon the world will know how much we can trust a communist regime that slaughters it own people.

Welcome to communism... soon to be imported to the US.

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TokunboAdesina I see this as an impact maker towards the bitcoin and other crypto's. What's your view

Simply because it's the CCP doesn't mean they mightn't be right.

Winnie the Pooh is trying to prop up his economy

Creating efficiencies everywhere all the time ... and getting richer by the minute. Many of us in the West would rather waste energy ‘demonising’ rather than learning from Asia.

Just a way to control all money

The West has better get its act together with digital currencies like Bitcoin, or it risks being left far far far behind by the like of China. Fortunately many money tycoons have realized that--why the price of Bitcoin is rising dramatically.

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Once again, this is a digitalised RMB it dose not means you've creat any new account and it can also be transfered to other offline.

It seems that Covid19 was all spread around the world on purpose...

China trying to avoid dollars in international transaction. I doubt Americans will sit and watch.

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Any country without digital territory will be the slaves of Facebook and Twitter.

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How is the Petro-Yuan doing?

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The Economist is unprofessional. That’s not how digital wallet works in China. It’s just a “digitalised money” and has no affect on banks.

Electric power?

Easy: Power over us and the strengthening of the relationship between banks and governments.

Then Chinese people’s wallet will be perfectly controlled by CCP

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Banks will have to adopt digital currency or go extinct.

It is trending.

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Shame about your Bitcoins?

A communist e-currency will not be replacing the dollar anytime soon.

At the same time while waiting for digital wallet.

be obedient or go bankrupt in a second.

Their only way to try and displace the US dollar as the global currency, but it won’t be successful.

and the venezuelan petro ?

Sure. Load that government app made by a Communist country.

Thank God !!

That's very cool and interesting, but terrifying at the same time.

Our Lefties in government will soon feel the same way about Big Tech. It's approach to corralling Big Tech will be very interesting.

Good job USTreasury 👏 While the United States are trying to play catch-up. We lost the most valuable race of all time.

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I have written about this currency model few months ago and send China now have launched.

Como no espabile la UE y USA...

Trust in China, yeah right!

This!!

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