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WeChat Deepens Partnership with the CCP over Digital Yuan Expansion

WeChat and its developer Tencent have become a tool for the CCP to monitor online public speech and suppress dissidents

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WeChat Deepens Partnership with the CCP over Digital Yuan Expansion
A mobile phone displays the logos for Chinese apps WeChat and TikTok in front of a monitor showing the flags of the United States and China on an internet page, on Sept. 22, 2020 in Beijing, China. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
Jessica Mao
By Jessica Mao
4/14/2022Updated: 4/15/2022
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WeChat, China’s Twitter-like social media app, announced on April 6 that it has embraced digital Chinese yuan in certain pilot regions as part of its intensified cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In recent years WeChat has increasingly become the regime’s tool for monitoring citizens, censoring speech, and clamping down on dissidents.

According to the WeChat announcement, cell phone users can make payments through a digital RMB app after opening an e-wallet in their real names in WeChat Bank, also known as WeChat Pay.
Jessica Mao
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Jessica Mao is a writer for The Epoch Times with a focus on China-related topics. She began writing for the Chinese-language edition in 2009.
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