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Three U.S. senators have urged the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee to forbid American athletes from receiving or using digital yuan during the Beijing Olympics. Raising many concerns, including privacy, they warned, “Olympic athletes should be aware that the digital yuan may be used to surveil Chinese citizens and those visiting China on an unprecedented scale.”
Three U.S. senators wrote a letter to Susanne Lyons, the chairman of the board of the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC), Monday with concerns regarding the digital yuan.
Senators Marsha Blackburn, Roger Wicker, and Cynthia Lummis wrote: “We write to express our concerns with the communist Chinese government’s plans to officially launch the Digital Currency Electronic Payment, commonly referred to as the digital yuan, prior to the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022.
Taken from here: https://news.bitcoin.com/us-senators-forbid-american-athletes-receiving-using-digital-yuan-beijing-olympics/
Well, maybe they can be appealing to nationalism so no athletes can be enticed to receive any digital yuan from anyone while participating in the ongoing Tokyo Olympics. Though I doubt if China would be so willing to just give any any of the CBDC to anyone who can be an American. Anyway, the thing here is that leading political figures are now noticing what China is doing with CBDC and they should push more support for USA to also have its own.