{"id":1124830,"date":"2021-12-16T10:28:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T15:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1124830"},"modified":"2021-12-16T10:28:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T15:28:30","slug":"exclusive-rep-lance-gooden-republicans-urge-u-s-olympic-committee-to-block-athletes-from-using-digital-yuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-lance-gooden-republicans-urge-u-s-olympic-committee-to-block-athletes-from-using-digital-yuan\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive &#8211; Rep. Lance Gooden, Republicans Urge U.S. Olympic Committee to Block Athletes from Using Digital Yuan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-rep-lance-gooden-republicans-urge-u-s-olympic-committee-to-block-athletes-from-using-digital-yuan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1124830&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Digital-Yuan-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) and House Republicans urged the U.S. Olympic Committee to bar American athletes from using the digital yuan during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.<\/p>\n<p>Reps. Gooden, Lisa McClain (R-MI), and Jake Ellzey (R-TX) &nbsp;wrote to the sporting body urging it to refrain from using the digital yuan, or the People\u2019s Bank of China (PBOC) central bank digital currency (CBDC), contending it could lead to increased surveillance of American athletes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cChina is the primary adversary of the United States with a long track record of surveilling American citizens,\u201d Gooden told Breitbart News in a statement. \u201cThe United States Olympic Committee should take every precaution to protect the privacy of American athletes from the communist Chinese government.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The lawmakers wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"18\">\n<p>The digital yuan is entirely controlled by the PBOC, and can be tracked and traced by the central bank. The digital yuan has been in the works since 2014, but only recently has the Chinese government released key features regarding the digital currency, including the ability of the government to know the exact details of what someone purchased and where.<\/p>\n[\u2026]\n<p>While the Chinese Communist Party insists their efforts are aimed at digitizing bank notes and coins, Olympic athletes should be aware that the digital yuan may be used to surveil Chinese citizens and those visiting China on an unprecedented scale, with the hopes that they will maintain digital yuan wallets on their smartphones and continue to use it upon return. The integration of China\u2019s digital currency into global commerce has many problematic privacy implications.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gooden and the lawmakers noted that China\u2019s expansion of the digital yuan is especially concerning considering that the Chinese Communist Party suppresses the Uyghur minority and the people of Hong Kong. They wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p>These concerns are especially pronounced given the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s use of new and emerging technologies to suppress the Uyghur minority, the people of Hong Kong, and those across China who strive for freedom of expression. These concerns are not hypothetical. Rather, digital payment platforms such as WeChat, are already being used to surveil, threaten, and arrest Chinese citizens.<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The lawmakers\u2019 letter follows a similar letter led by Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY).<\/p>\n<p>The senators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackburn.senate.gov\/2021\/7\/blackburn-wicker-lummis-urge-us-olympic-committee-to-prohibit-athletes-from-using-the-digital-yuan\">wrote<\/a> to the Olympic committee, \u201cIt is paramount the USOPC works with the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Treasury, and the U.S. Department of Commerce to protect the privacy of American athletes from the Chinese Communist Government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Sean Moran is a congressional reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanMoran3\"><i>@SeanMoran3<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX) and House Republicans urged the U.S. Olympic Committee to bar American athletes from using the digital yuan during the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Breitbart News has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}