The successful CBDC's (central bank digital currencies) will also be BACKED BY THE BITCOIN STANDARD.
China's Yuan CBDC will fail, and China itself will fail as a country when the rest of the civilized world finally rejects authoritarianism for good and stops all trade with China. Then they will have another revolution, and massacre the CCP and form another country. Whether its with the same borders or not, I dont think it will be - there is far too much diversity that has no representation in Beijing.
That is partly a hopeful projection on my part of course.
I dont want authoritarianism to destroy the human spirit, which is the literal definition of what China is as a country.
If the USD CBDC does not back itself via crypto in some fashion, it will also fail. Nobody in the free world would use a CBDC that is:
1) Not backed by something of hard value (bitcoin being #1 hard asset); and
2) Is controlled by a corrupt non-democratic government.
The Swedish EKRONA is an early CBDC being developed now. It has a high chance of becoming the world's CBDC because it is one of the most civilized/developed and democratic countries in the world. If they develop the crypto part of it correclty and publicly ensure through their democratic institutions that it will not be used for any nefarious data tracking etc - it can easily become the world digital currency in short time.
Swedish KRONA is older than the US DOLLAR. It has stood the test of time before USA existed, and Sweden was one of the major 5 powers of the world.
These are of course viable possibilities. My opinion and projection of what could happen.