{"id":70960,"date":"2026-02-05T08:16:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=70960"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:16:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:16:45","slug":"trumps-crypto-competition-with-china-futile-says-peter-schiff-chinese-leadership-is-too-smart-to-care-about-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=70960","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Crypto Competition With China Futile, Says Peter Schiff: &#8216;Chinese Leadership Is Too Smart To Care About Bitcoin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Economist <strong>Peter Schiff<\/strong> questioned on Wednesday President <strong>Donald Trump\u2019s<\/strong> push to make the U.S. the \u201cworld capital\u201d of <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong><a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>), arguing that Beijing couldn\u2019t care less about the leading cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">China Not Bothered About Bitcoin, Says Schiff<\/h2>\n<p>In an X post, Schiff slammed Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/11\/48620626\/donald-trump-says-china-is-getting-big-into-crypto-right-now-but-is-that-true\">oft-repeated argument<\/a> that the U.S. must dominate cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to stop China from getting ahead. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Chinese leadership is too smart to care about Bitcoin,\u201d Schiff said. \u201cWhile we&#8217;re wasting capital and resources, they&#8217;re building factories and buying gold.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump says he believes in crypto and wants to make the U.S. the Bitcoin capital of the world because, if we don&#8217;t do it, China will. But Chinese leadership &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/02\/50401974\/trumps-crypto-competition-with-china-futile-says-peter-schiff-chinese-leadership-is-too-sma?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Trump's\" crypto competition with china futile says peter schiff: leadership is too smart to care about bitcoin>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist Peter Schiff questioned on Wednesday President Donald Trump\u2019s push to make the U.S. the \u201cworld capital\u201d of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), arguing that Beijing couldn\u2019t care less about the leading cryptocurrency. China Not Bothered About Bitcoin, Says Schiff In an X post, Schiff slammed Trump\u2019s oft-repeated argument that the U.S. must dominate cryptocurrency and blockchain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-70960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}