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The regulation of digital financial assets has been a topic of discussion for many countries over the last decade. China is among the world leaders in the digitalization and blockchain technologies. Under the "one country, two systems," two different approaches to the digital financial assets have been implemented in the PRC. Although the COVID-19 pandemic has stimulated many investors to diversify their investment portfolios to include digital financial assets, the People's Bank of China has not changed its prohibitive position on tokens and cryptocurrencies and even launched a campaign against miners and crypto exchanges. Macau and Taiwan have also prohibited initial coin offerings and the transfer of cryptocurrencies due to the risks of money laundering connected with the citizens of mainland China. Macau, Taiwan, and the Monetary Authority of Hong Kong have implemented less stringent regulations of digital financial assets. Comparative analysis demonstrates that Hong Kong acts as an intermediary for China to the digital financial assets.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)353-372
Number of pages20
JournalChina and WTO Review
Volume7
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2021

    Scopus subject areas

  • Law
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
  • Political Science and International Relations

    Research areas

  • Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Digital currencies, ICO, Money laundering

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