China’s Communist Party is working to keep its cadres up to speed as it embraces cutting-edge technologies from artificial intelligence to blockchain, with a latest step being a textbook guide to digital currencies. The 200-page handbook Digital Currency: A Reader for Cadres, released by the publishing house of People’s Daily, includes 23 articles with topics ranging from the basics of the concept to its impact on monetary systems and global finance. The book entered the second printing in January, only three months after being launched, and is an addition to a series of guides for cadres covering subjects including ... (full story)