On April 21, Zhou Xiaochuan, the former governor of the People’s Bank of China, spoke at the Boao Forum for Asia, with an emphasis on digital taxes. He confirmed that digital taxes will be discussed at the Group of 20 (G-20) Summit this July when every member state is expected to express its views. Zhou indicated that China’s discussion of its views should “avoid falling into fights with each other over the digital tax, especially about whose wallet the money raised from the digital tax belongs to” as “the fights could easily emerge as a new tariff war.” Global Dispute Over Digital Taxes Conflict surrounding how and what digital taxes should be regulated has arisen between the United States, a major exporter of digital services, and European countries that use digital services. Zhou said, “Large cross-border digital service companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Google have many European users, …