It is surprising that China and Russia, who most seek to control their populations using track and trace surveillance, and are most advanced in the issuance of CBDCs and least avail their people of free speech, are recommending that national governments most decentralize trade between them.

This is a deep prejudice that you have gotten through Western propaganda, @valued-customer. Level of control is much higher in the West. Far higher:

https://twitter.com/foaddabiri/status/1654856617723301888

- foaddabiri