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And we chat with Jan. 6 committee witness Sarah Matthews.

And a federal judge says Donald Trump “more likely than not” attempted to illegally obstruct Congress.

And the debt ceiling standoff looms.

Opinions | Panic at the dollar Daniel Drezner © Yan Cong/Bloomberg Signage for the digital yuan at a supermarket checkout in Shenzhen, China. Back in 2018, I expressed some unease with the dollar’s standing in the global economy. This was premised on two worrisome trends. The first was the explosion of U.S. public debt issuances and whether foreign actors would continue to display an appetite for Treasuries. Popular Searches The second was the executive branch weaponiz...

“China’s version of a digital currency is controlled by its central bank, which will issue the new electronic money. It is expected to give China’s government vast new tools to monitor both its economy and its people. By design, the digital yuan will negate one of bitcoin’s major draws: anonymity for the user,” reports James Areddy for the The Growing Digital Payments Industry As an actively managed ETF, ARKF isn’t constrained by an index or geographic parameters, giving it the abi...

Opinions | Let’s check in on the China gap! Daniel Drezner © Evan Vucci/AP President Biden answers questions from reporters in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex. Biden is unlikely to confront China on trade right away because he wants to focus on the coronavirus and the economy, but he does look set to renew pressure over trade and technology grievances that prompted Donald Trump to hike tariffs on Chinese imports in 2017. Two years and two days ago, t...