CCP Propaganda Being Pushed by Forbes

Aug 20, 2025

CCP Propaganda Rag Pushes CBDCs Again

Congress MUST resist China’s latest ploy!

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is using its propaganda machine once again to coerce America into adopting a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) just like the one the CCP currently uses as digital funny money to control its citizens.

We need YOUR HELP to get the Senate to pass S 1124, the Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act. Protect YOUR wallet from tyrants’ prying eyes and controls!

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On April 30, 2025, Forbes ran an article trying to scare U.S. lawmakers into issuing a Central Bank Digital Currency modeled after the Chinese Communist Party’s latest digital financial surveillance and control “funny money.”

Of the 1,614 words in the entire article, just 14 words mention that some people may have a concern about a government’s ability to “track every retail transaction.” The rest of the article is an exercise in belittling people’s legitimate concerns while attempting to scare Congress into action. In fact, the entire premise of the article is that China already has a CBDC, so America had better catch up.

It should be noted that Forbes Media, once a bastion of the American free market economy, is now owned by a CCP-controlled company, Integrated Whale Technologies. Shortly after the CCP took over Forbes, longtime contributors who had a history of critiquing the CCP were promptly fired from the news organization.

Forbes’ CCP propaganda isn’t new. On July 7, 2023, Forbes ran a similar but more pointed article extolling the virtues of a Central Bank Digital Currency that labeled detractors as “skeptics” and “conspiracy theorists.” 

According to the Carnegie Council, a nonprofit dedicated to studying ethics in international affairs, the CCP uses Forbes and other media outlets in which it has ownership to conduct “opinion deterrence” in the United States. Opinion deterrence is a bland-sounding euphemism for propaganda.

“CBDCs have all the elements that governments have always been drawn to, the two key pieces being tracking and control,” says Adam Jordan, director of investments for Paul R. Ried Financial Group.

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Here’s what Forbes, the CCP, and certain pro-financial-surveillance Democrats in Congress hope you will not discover — a CBDC puts the government in charge of every cent you earn or spend.

And one need not “imagine” doomsday results, as the CCP’s present use of a CBDC on its own citizens shows us exactly how a tyrannical government can and will use digital programmable money to control people.

If a Chinese citizen obeys and publicly praises the CCP, the citizen is given extra money, low interest rates, and the freedom to spend.

But if those citizens dare question CCP policies — or worse yet, if they are known to be Christians (which the CCP considers “cult” members) — they are denied loans and consumer credit, barred from paying for private school tuition, and only allowed to use their own hard-earned money to buy things the CCP approves.

And if those Christians spread the gospel or are known to question the CCP, their funds are simply erased, impoverishing the individual and their family as punishment. All it takes is the push of a single button to erase the financial freedom of dissenters.

Some congressional Democrats apparently think CCP financial control over citizens is a great idea, and they are attempting to prevent President Trump and Congress from passing legislation to permanently BAN CBDCs.

We already know how some hate freedom. Throughout COVID, they shut down churches and arrested pastors and churchgoers.

During the Obama/Biden years, they pressured banks and credit card companies to stop doing business with gun shops in a blatant attempt to prevent people from using their Second Amendment rights.

And for decades, they have tried to control what we eat, banning movie popcorn, and pushing lab-grown “meat” or Bill Gates’ cricket protein to prevent us from eating good old-fashioned animal meat.

We absolutely MUST BAN a CCP-style digital dollar here, or these kinds of petty tyrannies will become a permanent way of life, turning freedom-loving Americans into mere serfs, beholden to the whims of control-minded politicians in league with the CCP and other globalists.

There remain good men and women in Congress protecting our constitutional rights. They need our support NOW as they fight to preserve our precious freedom.

Fax Congress now and demand they VOTE YES on S 1124, the Anti-CBDC Surveillance Act.

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Sources:

Adelmann, Bob. “Obama Administration Choking off Bank Lending to Gun Dealers.” New American, May 19, 2014. Thenewamerican.com/obama-administration-choking-off-bank-lending-to-gun-dealers/.

Duggan, Wayne. “Will the U.S. Launch a Digital Dollar?” Forbes Advisor, July 7, 2023. Forbes.com/advisor/investing/digital-dollar/.

“Forbes Media Sold to Hong Kong’s Integrated Whale.” BBC News, July 18, 2014. Bbc.com/news/business-28380634.

Kapron, Zennon. “America’s Self-Inflicted CBDC Vacuum.” Forbes, April 30, 2025. Forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/04/30/americas-self-inflicted-cbdc-vacuum/.

‌Ressler, Eric. “Information Warfare: The Communist Party of China’s Influence Operations in the United States and Japan.” Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, August 29, 2018. Carnegiecouncil.org/media/series/asia/information-warfare-the-communist-party-of-chinas-influence-operations-in-the-united-states-and-japan.

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