Crypto in China

China’s long-fabled “cryptocurrency” launch is finally on the horizon. According to Bloomberg, People’s Bank of China (PBoC) payments department deputy director Mu Changchun confirmed at the China Finance 40 Forum that the country’s cryptocurrency is nearing its release following a year of research and development. Given Beijing’s history of antagonism toward decentralized cryptocurrencies, what does the impending launch of a PBoC-approved digital currency mean for bitcoin? China’s...

The founder and CEO of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, Ren Zhengfei, has dismissed concerns that Facebook’s planned cryptocurrency Libra could dominate the world at the expense of China and its tech firms, Sina reports.Noting that countries have more power compared to internet firms, Zhengfei stated that China could issue its own digital currency that would rival Libra:China can also issue such a currency by itself. Why wait for others to issue it? The power of a country is always...