{"id":145657,"date":"2026-02-05T20:12:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145657"},"modified":"2026-02-05T20:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:12:01","slug":"us-treasury-chief-warns-china-could-challenge-us-digital-asset-lead-via-hong-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145657","title":{"rendered":"US Treasury chief warns China could challenge US digital asset lead via Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he \u201cwould not be surprised\u201d if China is already looking into ways to challenge the US\u2019 pre-eminence in digital assets, given Hong Kong&#8217;s efforts to develop the industry.<br \/>\nWhen testifying before the Senate Banking Committee on Thursday, Bessent said that there are \u201clots of rumours of Chinese digital assets\u201d possibly being backed by something other than its currency yuan, such as gold, but that the US could not confirm such claims.<br \/>\n\u201cWe don\u2019t know that for&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/article\/3342569\/us-treasury-chief-warns-china-could-challenge-us-digital-asset-lead-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostUS Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he \u201cwould not be surprised\u201d if China is already looking into ways to challenge the US\u2019 pre-eminence in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145657"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}