What is one to make our of the the emergence of a blockchain-enabled digital Yuan? China has become the first major economy to issue a digital version of its currency and that has Fed chiefs in the US concerned that the dollar’s status as the world’s go-to reserve currency might be under threat or even attacked. “Anything that threatens the dollar is a national security issue. This threatens the dollar over the long term,” argued Josh Lipsky of the Atlantic Council. Nearly 90

What is one to make out of the deteriorating relations between the US and China that has rapidly gathered pace as of late. Similarly, military tensions in the Pacific are rising. Taiwan has recently stated that China’s military exercises within its air defense buffer zone were the most significant threat to its security since Beijing launched missiles into the seas around Taiwan in 1996. The rising tensions between China and Taiwan place the U.S. in a delicate position given

The Biden administration is tackling what seems to be every U.S. administration before it has attempted to do and failed: How to slow down or stop China’s rise. Undoubtedly, China at first and at the behest of the U.S. modernized its economy to the point where it has in many ways surpassed the U.S. be it in manufacturing and technology or Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth and employment. Many U.S. policymakers argue that they want China to be more like the U.S., but not to