SHARON LI analyzes the Chinese government’s extensive use and potential abuse of blockchain technology in the context of Beijing’s opposition towards cryptocurrency. As the mayhem around bitcoin has begun to die down in the United States, the record-keeping technology behind it—blockchain—still surges forward. In China, this is no exception. The most basic definition of blockchain calls it a “distributed, decentralized, public ledger”; in other words, … Continue reading Blockchain: Rising Tide or Binding Fetters for the Next China?