Beijing has set itself an ambitious goal to be the world leader in blockchain technology by 2025, a mere three years away from today. In an October 2019 seminar at the Chinese Politburo, the decision-making body of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), President Xi Jinping identified blockchain as a key area of technological breakthrough for China; he was recorded as remarking that the technology was of strategic importance to the nation. This was followed by a policy change from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), which has broad administrative & planning control over the economy of the People’s Republic...