原文如下: US President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to support the cryptocurrency sector could provide a fresh impetus for mainland China to revitalise its digital-asset market, according to an industry veteran, as tech competition between the two countries continue to escalate. “If the US Congress and the [incoming] president make crypto policies clear, constantly legislate and promote the industry, it would certainly be a driving force for China to accept [cryptocurrencies],” HashKey Group chairman and chief executive Xiao Feng said in an interview with the South China Morning Post last week. The action taken by Washington and its Western allies in 2022 to cut Russia off from the Swift financial messaging system – part of a package of sanctions aimed at pressuring Moscow to abandon its invasion of Ukraine – may also contribute to convincing Beijing to support the cryptocurrency sector, according to Xiao. “China perhaps needed five or six years from the present to accept [cryptocurrency businesses] without these events occurring,” he said. “But now, because of these factors, that time frame could be shortened to two years.”