PGC – Senator Marsha Blackburn is sounding an alarm to anyone who might want to listen to her that Chinese Digital Currency on government phones is an extreme security risk to the American state. She wants to pass a bill to make sure US government officials cannot have Chinese Digital Currency on their phones.
This is a thing that requires a bill to be passed to prevent members of our government from putting Chinese digital currency on your government phone.
I believe, your honor, the record speaks to itself as to the nature of the state of things in these here halls of government in current year.
Blackburn Unveils Plan To Block Chinese Digital Currency From Government Devices
From freebeacon.com
2021-08-05 15:03:09
Santi Ruiz
Excerpt:
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) took steps on Thursday to ban a new Chinese digital currency from government devices, arguing that China could use the currency to surveil people around the world.
Blackburn told the Washington Free Beacon that the ban, introduced as an amendment to the Senate’s omnibus infrastructure bill, is needed to prevent China from stealing information.
“The People’s Bank of China is trying to use this as a way to hack into networks,” Blackburn said. “Once you’ve got them in your wallet, you’ll have them in your wallet from now on.”
China is rolling out the digital currency in an attempt to better surveil its users and to create an alternative to traditional financial systems backed by the U.S. dollar.
Lawmakers are sounding the alarm about the digital yuan ahead of the 2022 Olympics, where Chinese officials plan to test the currency more broadly. Blackburn, Sen. Roger Wicker (R., Miss.), and Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.) last month asked the U.S. Olympic Committee to ban American Olympians from using the currency at the Beijing games.
Blackburn told the Free Beacon the digital yuan is part of a larger push by China to displace the United States as a world leader. “We know that China is seeking to push the yuan as the currency that countries will peg to,” she said. “We’re attentive to the aggressiveness they are exercising when they push this as the standard.”
