Canada's mint already created a crypto-currency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintChip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintChip It didn't exactly explode in po

Canada's mint already created a crypto-currency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintChip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintChip It didn't exactly explode in popularity, and has since been sold to a private corp. China won't be the first country to issue a crypto-currency because it's already been done by other countries. If China does issue one, people likely won't trust it and will avoid it like the plague. China's only real advantage here it is to leverage their authoritarian state to force their own citizens to use a state-approved crypto-currency and hope it catches on elsewhere as a result. As for China becoming the world's sole super-power in the next decade... I am skeptical. Given China's demographics (i.e. greying), current political problems (e.g. Hong Kong), exodus of manufacturing (e.g. Samsung), and increasing resistance to their influence from other states, I would predict China's global power is near its peak and will soon begin declining, likely being substantially lower at the end of the decade than it is now.