You're right there's a trust problem, but that's going to operate both ways. China wants to send money to Germany. Right now their option is to use the global reserve currency, i.e. USD. So they want to use gold... how exactly? IOU's? Who's going to trust that?

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But they don't view crypto as a viable alternative as most governments don't wanna let people use crypto which can be hard to tax.
They might run other cryptos that they agree with. Like xrp or whatever shitcoin which they agree on. But on Bitcoin, it's something they can't control.