> As someone who worked with Chinese nationals, even some of them who were complete simps for The Party had no desire to have all their finances completely digi

> As someone who worked with Chinese nationals, even some of them who were complete simps for The Party had no desire to have all their finances completely digitized and tracked. HA! Reminds me of Bertolt Brecht's postwar life when he returned to East Germany. In public, good socialist playwright who wrote laudatory letters to the SED, in private, critic of Stalinism... the great firewall between the two? The East German authorities let him keep a Swiss bank account and Austrian citizenship, so he could hold the earnings from his plays out of their reach.