THELOGICALINDIAN - Three US senators accept apprenticed the United States Olympic Paralympic Committee to forbid American athletes from accepting or application agenda yuan during the Beijing Olympics Raising abounding apropos including aloofness they warned Olympic athletes should be acquainted that the agenda yuan may be acclimated to surveil Chinese citizens and those visiting China on an aberrant scale
US Senators Raise Concerns About China’s Digital Yuan
Three U.S. senators wrote a letter to Susanne Lyons, the administrator of the lath of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), Monday with apropos apropos the agenda yuan.
Senators Marsha Blackburn, Roger Wicker, and Cynthia Lummis wrote: “We address to accurate our apropos with the antipathetic Chinese government’s affairs to clearly barrage the Agenda Currency Electronic Payment, frequently referred to as the agenda yuan, above-mentioned to the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022.” They clarified:
The agenda yuan, the People’s Coffer of China’s (PBOC) axial coffer agenda bill (CBDC), “is absolutely controlled by the PBOC, and can be tracked and traced by the axial bank,” the senators explained.
The Chinese government has been testing and giving away agenda yuan in assorted cities and companies accept already amorphous accepting it as a agency of payment. The white paper for the agenda yuan was additionally afresh unveiled.
The senators acclaimed that “the Chinese Communist Party insists their efforts are aimed at digitizing banknotes and coins.” However, they warned, “Olympic athletes should be acquainted that the agenda yuan may be acclimated to surveil Chinese citizens and those visiting China on an aberrant scale, with the hopes that they will advance agenda yuan wallets on their smartphones and abide to use it aloft return.”
The letter added states:
The senators asked the USOPC to assignment with the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Treasury, and the U.S. Department of Commerce “to assure the aloofness of American athletes from the Chinese Communist Government.” They additionally asked for a conference on this appeal for Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation associates aural 30-days of cancellation of this letter.
Responding to the senators’ action, Chinese Foreign Ministry agent Zhao Lijian told reporters Tuesday in Beijing that it appear their ignorance. “We advance they amount out what a agenda bill absolutely is,” he was quoted as saying. “The US politicians should accept by the spirit assured in the Olympic Charter, stop authoritative sports a political amount and stop authoritative troubles out of the agenda bill in China.”
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