WHY USA Is the Last Bastion
And Why America Must Lead with a Treasury-Backed Stablecoin to Defeat mBridge
WHY USA Is the Last Bastion
And Why America Must Lead with a Treasury-Backed Stablecoin to Defeat mBridge
By Julie Wade
J Auto Trading Strategies | July 8, 2025
In an era where soft tyranny masquerades as “global cooperation,” the United States stands as the world’s last unyielding bastion of freedom. Our strength does not stem from perfection or immunity to internal challenges but from a rare preservation of what much of the world has surrendered: the right to self-govern, the power to elect our leaders and the courage to speak freely without fear of reprisal or censorship. These principles, hard-won over centuries, remain the bedrock of American exceptionalism.
Historically, people have flocked to America for one reason: sovereignty. The promise of opportunity, self-determination and liberty has drawn millions seeking to build lives unshackled by oppressive regimes or centralized control. Yet this promise now teeters on the edge—not from the thunder of tanks or the explosion of missiles but from the insidious advance of distributed ledgers, centralized protocols and a silent monetary coup known as mBridge. This threat is not solely external—it is amplified by domestic institutions that in some instances have prioritized foreign entanglements and political expediency over the nation’s sovereign interests.
mBridge: A Digital Coup Engineered in Beijing
mBridge is no benign technological advancement. It represents a geostrategic infiltration of the global financial system cloaked as a “cross-border payment platform.” In reality, it is a central bank digital currency (CBDC) initiative spearheaded by the People’s Bank of China, co-founded by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and supported by a coalition including Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Thailand. This alliance signals a deliberate effort to erode the U.S. dollar’s dominance in international trade.
Though the BIS announced its formal “exit” in 2024, its influence persists through interoperable sister projects like Project Agorá and Project Icebreaker—each designed to integrate seamlessly into mBridge’s global distributed ledger technology (DLT) clearing layer. China provides the technical backbone, coding the infrastructure with precision and purpose. The World Economic Forum (WEF) amplifies the narrative, framing mBridge as a progressive step toward “inclusive finance” in its Davos panels and whitepapers. Meanwhile the European Central Bank (ECB), far from a neutral bystander, has emerged as an enthusiastic champion of this system.
The ECB: Not Just an Observer—An Orchestrator
The ECB’s “observer” status within mBridge is a diplomatic veneer. In practice it has actively championed the integration of CBDCs into the global payments architecture. ECB President Christine Lagarde has been vocal about this shift, emphasizing the strategic importance of CBDCs for European autonomy:
“Cross-border CBDCs will ensure European autonomy in global payments.”
— Lagarde, July 2023 ECB address“We must ensure Europe is not dependent on others for key financial infrastructures.”
— Lagarde, WEF 2022 panel on digital currencies
This rhetoric reveals a calculated agenda. The ECB is not engaging in fair competition within a marketplace of ideas—it is seeking to reshape global financial rules to neutralize the U.S. advantage. To European technocrats, the dollar’s dominance is an obstacle, the American consumer economy too resilient and our culture of economic freedom too antithetical to their vision of top-down control. Their subtle strategy involves creating global payment protocols that gradually marginalize the dollar, aligning the U.S. with their overregulated zero-growth model characterized by negative interest rates and stifling bureaucracy.
The Eurozone Model: Sabotage by Harmonization
The Eurozone’s economic landscape paints a grim picture, underscoring the ECB’s motives:
GDP growth has languished at an anemic 0.5% annually for over a decade
Youth unemployment in southern Europe consistently exceeds 20%
Energy policy has rendered European industry vulnerable with reliance on imported gas exposing critical weaknesses
Productivity growth has flatlined, unable to keep pace with global competitors
Faced with this stagnation and devoid of a robust organic growth strategy, the ECB has pivoted to regulatory expansionism. By aligning with BIS and WEF initiatives like mBridge, it seeks to export European-style policy frameworks onto global settlement networks. This is not about superior performance but about asserting control over a system that currently favors American financial leadership. Far from integration, this is sabotage executed through protocol design—aiming to level the playing field by dragging others down to match Eurozone inefficiencies.
China’s Endgame: Roads, Ports and Digital Rails
China’s ambitions are transparent and far-reaching. The Belt and Road Initiative lays the physical foundation with roads, ports and railways across continents. mBridge complements this by constructing the financial infrastructure, weaving a digital web of trade and settlement. Together they form a closed-loop system underpinned by digital surveillance, local currency dependency and state-sanctioned interoperability—designed to lock nations into Beijing’s orbit.
China’s goal is not to compete with the U.S. dollar but to supplant it. A programmable digital RMB could dominate oil contracts, trade finance and cross-border transfers, enforcing compliance through algorithmic control rather than market dynamics. The ECB and WEF, rather than resisting this shift, appear eager to collaborate with Beijing provided they secure a role in shaping the new financial architecture—even if it compromises U.S. sovereignty and undermines the dollar’s global reserve status.
America Must Decide: Lead or Be Absorbed
This is not a call to resist progress but to define it. If U.S. banks “opt in” to mBridge or similar frameworks, they will not be joining a neutral clearinghouse. They will be subjecting themselves to a supranational regime governed by foreign rules, foreign code and foreign values—crafted in Beijing, endorsed in Brussels and promoted by Davos. This would erode American jurisdiction, expose depositors to extraterritorial compliance and cede control of the financial system to unelected technocrats.
The Solution: A Treasury-Backed U.S. Stablecoin
The United States must not merely react to mBridge—it must render it obsolete. The solution lies in a Treasury-backed stablecoin, denominated in U.S. dollars, optionally collateralized by gold and cleared exclusively under U.S. law through American infrastructure.
This initiative would:
🔒 Preserve U.S. monetary sovereignty while facilitating seamless global digital settlements
🇺🇸 Protect American depositors and financial institutions from foreign regulatory overreach and compliance burdens
💵 Provide allies with a dependable jurisdictionally secure alternative to Chinese or Eurocentric payment systems
🔨 Tie participation to U.S. trade policy, industrial strategy and national security interests—reinforcing alignment with American values
Let China, the ECB and the WEF construct their fragile rails—burdened by central planning and opaque governance. Our system will thrive on transparency, real collateral and constitutional oversight. Theirs, built on shifting sands of authoritarian control, will inevitably falter.
Final Word: This Is Our Hill
The United States was not forged to follow the world’s lead. It was built to set the course—not through coercion but through the enduring principles of liberty, free markets and the rule of law.
Today, this model faces a coordinated assault from authoritarian competitors, supranational bureaucracies and global technocrats who, having failed to construct viable systems of their own, now seek to dismantle ours.
Let them try.
As long as we retain the right to speak, to vote and to shape our destiny, we will stand resolute. We will not be ruled by smart contracts coded in Shenzhen. We will not clear trades through the corridors of Brussels. And we will not surrender our sovereignty to the glossy pages of a WEF whitepaper.
This is still America. And we will define the rails of the future.
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