This is an interesting time though for Westerners going in and out of China. I don't think I'm going to be able to go back just because people are like, hey, you might get arrested there. There is the risk that cryptocurrency or tokenization of assets gives rogue actors that wouldn't otherwise be able to access the financial systemor gain access to resources. Frankly, we're seeing that with North Korea. They've turned to the cyber heist and these crypto schemes to get access to capital. And so it's worthy of a lot of attention by both the public and the private sector to try to deal with what the North Koreans are doing.
Treasury's War author Juan Zarate joins us to discuss how the US wields its financial power against terrorism, rogue states, and global crime syndicates.
What We Discuss with Juan Zarate:
- Why the Treasury Department became part of the intelligence apparatus of the United States post-9/11 — after resisting such integration for years.
- Sanctions: what are they good for and how do they work?
- How and why criminals (whether they're of the independent, organized, or state-sponsored variety) need banks and financial institutions for any major crime to succeed.
- What the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) system is and how it's used to disrupt terrorist financing around the world.
- For better or worse, what role does cryptocurrency play in all of this?
- And much more...
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