Dr. Hilda Cathy Heine, President of the Marshall Islands, is facing a political attack for her support of a planned national cryptocurrency. If the move is successful, it may dissuade other leaders from opening up to the new technology opposed by the IMF.
If the IMF succeeds in dissuading them from issuing digital assets, the field might be left only to countries already antagonistic to the West such as Iran, Venezuela and Russia.
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