Will India’s Digital Rupee Drive Economic Repression?

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will launch a wholesale pilot of its digital rupee on Nov. 1, 2022, to make interbank settlements more efficient, with plans for a retail Central Bank Digital Currency ...

CBDC Tied to Digital IDs, the Latest in Financial Repression

Central bank digital currencies (CBDC) were once seen by the crypto community as a positive development. However, there could be a more sinister side, especially in the more authoritarian states that ...

U.S. Will Restrict Visas For Chinese Officials Involved In Uyghur Repression, Blinken Says

Topline The State Department will impose visa restrictions on Chinese government officials it believes are complicit in the repression of minority groups, dissidents and activists in China or in the U...