The Hill
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China’s digital yuan, e-CNY, is designed to increase government's powers of surveillance and control — a surveillance coin.
Over 100 governments are exploring CBDCs that can be passed phone-to-phone the way paper bills pass.
U.S. must influence development of global standards for CBDC that affirmatively protect democratic values like freedom of speech and privacy.
U.S.-created freedom coins can help lead the world toward a richly deserved financial future, authors say.
What remains unknown is whether surveillance coins will have the world to themselves, or whether they will encounter competition from freedom coins issued by traditional democracies like the United States.
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