china is moving towards a new totalitarianism and this appears to be one of the methods.
China already undermines its people via capital controls, they devalue the currency to serve the export economy model which has the benefit of making their citizens labor much cheaper without their involvement in that decision.
Its not going to be any closer to crypto currency as we know then the Venezuela model which was a joke, without any decentralization or ability for free agents to be involved in production, transmission and fees its purely just a system of digital currency under the puppet control of politics and we already have digital currency systems in most countries. The vast majority of FIAT for most major currencies is calculated and settled purely digitally without ever being close to physically relating to any value or trade of actual goods, a large part of most trade balance is now is made up by bonds which are no fixed value either but helps to reinforce the current unit value so long as they are held.
The two measures I know of China making in a substantial way in recent years has been to enter into the agreement of SDR value operated by the IMF for a common currency between major nations. The other obvious measure by China has been to alter their stance of physical gold reserves, becoming both the worlds largest importer of gold and producer of gold with few exports we can say the command economy of China is amassing large amounts of gold in place of what might be foreign reserves of Dollar or related debt.
Other policy notable is Chinese ownership and sponsorship of major infrastructure and assets in many countries. I'm not sure if the giant take over announced of LSE by Hong Kong is a private deal or a cover for China central government control, unfortunately Hong Kong and all its capitalist wealth is soon to become one of the collective.
China Belt and Roads Initiative -
http://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/Assets/Documents/reports/LSE-IDEAS-China-SEA-BRI.pdfChina knows something none of us do or at least acknowledge which is currency is worthless compared to assets. They do or will have the power to undermine most western governments and cause massive devaluation of Purchasing
power for those nations.