The longer these situations persist, the more entrenched and normalized they become, and the extra readily they can be used by regimes excited about exercising social and political control. Rather than exporting this new system in a way much like what different technological leaders have done, China appears to be making a U-turn. China’s government has cracked down on big tech similar to Alibaba and is instead selling a new central bank digital currency to facilitate payments by way of commercial banks. There additionally has been growing concern about the fragmentation of the worldwide technology sector, including the rise of divergent standards and norms, because the Chinese technology market increasingly decouples from these of the United States and the West more broadly. The aims are to offer a forum for nationwide and worldwide academicians, researchers, and practitioners in the broad engineering and technology subject to publish the unique articles. Accepted …