Commentary This is the second of a two-part article articulating the risks of CCP China’s new digital yuan, the e-CNY. Part I details the risk to people and businesses in CCP China. This Part II addresses the geopolitical and geostrategic risks of the digital yuan to other nations and Western-style democracies.   The power the CCP will exercise from e-CNY that I described in Part I won’t be limited to the borders of CCP China. There is a bigger, looming, threat, and it’s global. CCP China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI) is intended to spread commercial and geopolitical influence in Central, South, and Southeast Asia, as well as into Europe and the Middle East. For less developed economies, e-CNY may be a godsend that allows access to payment and banking services, but it’s also a Trojan Horse. While payments can be transferred far more easily in, say, the desolate areas …