According to the study, the shape of conflict itself is changing. Modern warfare, it is said, is holistic and hybrid, extending from battlefields into databases and trading screens. Digital currency is presented as a continuation of financial warfare by other means, faster, borderless, and programmable.
By converting state money into code, Beijing could keep its industries supplied and its citizens paid even if global markets splinter. The report describes a triad of “total war, hybrid war, and digital financial war,” in which currency serves as both a shield and a weapon.
China’s digital yuan and its ledger-based settlement systems are designed to operate outside Western rails such as . They would, the authors argue, preserve payment channels if foreign sanctions were to widen. In that sense, the digital yuan doubles as an insurance policy against financial isolation.
For its part, the Party School views blockchain as infrastructure for national survival, rather than speculation. The study hints that future conflicts may be fought as much through liquidity management as through logistics.