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They are doing it through agreements with certain states or other entities. BGI Group is one of the main Chinese Companies working in the U.S. to collect the DNA of Americans.
They are collecting as much DNA as they can. They are even taking DNA samples from the parents of the kids killed in Uvalde - which seems totally unnecessary to me.
For all the polarization that grips Washington, here's a source of rare consensus: the emerging threat of China's push to acquire our health care data, including the DNA of American citizens. U.S. officials tell us the communist regime's aggressive collection of our most personal information presents a danger both to national security and our economy.
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The authoritarian government of China and its leader Xi Jinping have been boldly open about their ambitions to beat the west and reap the benefits of advances in DNA science and technology.
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Think of DNA as the ultimate treasure map, a kind of double-helixed chart containing the code for traits ranging from our eye color to our susceptibility to certain diseases. If you have 10,000 DNA samples, scientists could possibly isolate the genetic markers in the DNA associated with, say, breast cancer. But if you have 10 million samples, your statistical chances of finding the markers improve dramatically, which is why China wants to get so much of it.
This theory says China wants to corner the U.S. health care market and be the source of our DNA technology.
We need to further harmonize policies and standards and establish 'fast tracks' to facilitate the orderly flow of personnel," said Chinese ruler Xi Jinping to the virtual G20 Leaders' Summit on November 21. "China has proposed a global mechanism on the mutual recognition of health certificates based on nucleic acid test results in the form of internationally accepted QR codes. We hope more countries will join this mechanism."
No, this is not a benign proposal to facilitate international travel and trade. On the contrary, this is almost certainly another Chinese initiative to enlarge its collection of the DNA of the world's population.
And why does China want such sensitive data? Beijing is determined to dominate the biotech industry. Beijing may also be developing biological weapons designed to target certain ethnic groups.
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As the Global Times, often used to float Beijing's proposals, stated, "the China-proposed global mechanism for mutually recognized health codes is taking shape." China's requirements for in-bound passengers, the paper noted, "can shed light on how a global mechanism for mutual health code recognition will look like."
There are, of course, hard-to-solve privacy concerns with a mandatory QR code. Who is going to trust any national government with information about health and travel information?
And who would administer such a system? Raina MacIntyre of the University of New South Wales, in the words of CNN, "suggested that a central database of information managed by the World Health Organization or a United Nations agency might be the least controversial way of creating a COVID tracking app."
The World Health Organization (WHO) would perhaps be the least trusted administrator, especially because that body has a questionable relationship with Beijing. WHO, after all, knew the coronavirus was highly contagious but nonetheless issued a January 14 tweet that helped China propagate the false narrative that the disease was not readily transmissible. Moreover, WHO took other actions, without justification, that made itself complicit in Beijing's spread of COVID-19 beyond that country's borders.
They are doing it through agreements with certain states or other entities. BGI Group is one of the main Chinese Companies working in the U.S. to collect the DNA of Americans.
They are collecting as much DNA as they can. They are even taking DNA samples from the parents of the kids killed in Uvalde - which seems totally unnecessary to me.
One of the things in the world I do not worry about is China.
China is looking a demographic time bomb right in the face. They are only partly responsible for their own demise, but there is nothing that can be done to avoid it now.
The best estimates place China's population at 50% of today's by 2100, while Peter Zeihan places it at 50% of today's by 2050. The UN has other figures, but their figures are not supported by mathematics.
Regardless, China is a hollow shell. They have seen their best days. Falling population, aging population, empty cities built to support an artificially high GDP, and a labor rate which has risen by a factor of 6 since 2000 will all bring China to a halt.
One of the things in the world I do not worry about is China.
China is looking a demographic time bomb right in the face. They are only partly responsible for their own demise, but there is nothing that can be done to avoid it now.
The best estimates place China's population at 50% of today's by 2100, while Peter Zeihan places it at 50% of today's by 2050. The UN has other figures, but their figures are not supported by mathematics.
Regardless, China is a hollow shell. They have seen their best days. Falling population, aging population, empty cities built to support an artificially high GDP, and a labor rate which has risen by a factor of 6 since 2000 will all bring China to a halt.
Don’t worry.
They got ole Uncle Joe helping them out. Ghina will be fine.
One of the things in the world I do not worry about is China.
China is looking a demographic time bomb right in the face. They are only partly responsible for their own demise, but there is nothing that can be done to avoid it now.
The best estimates place China's population at 50% of today's by 2100, while Peter Zeihan places it at 50% of today's by 2050. The UN has other figures, but their figures are not supported by mathematics.
Regardless, China is a hollow shell. They have seen their best days. Falling population, aging population, empty cities built to support an artificially high GDP, and a labor rate which has risen by a factor of 6 since 2000 will all bring China to a halt.
There's too many damn people in China anyways. Their government does not want quantity. They want quality and loyalty, and they have sorts of mechanism in place to force it. I don't think they are very effective mechanisms, and a lot of it is forced/not authentic, but Wallstreet and US CEOs love it and continue pouring money into that country. All those concentration camps that have popped up have only increased the greedy twinkle in their eye.
There are tons of poor countries greedy US business interests could go... But they can't make people do evil crap like set up social credit rating systems or incarcerate tons of their own citizens over something like religion or ethnicity. That kind of evil is only possible in certain places.
That is disturbing but how do you know this BGI Group is the one collecting the DNA of the Uvalde parents?
I don't get the need for DNA to identify someone killed... especially a kid whose parental records are well known in the school. That should be the first question.
I don't get the need for DNA to identify someone killed... especially a kid whose parental records are well known in the school. That should be the first question.
If a kid is shot in the face, you need DNA to identify them. Didn't he shoot his grandmother in the face before going to the school? That's his MO.
Sorry to be so graphic but your lack of imagination forced me to spell it out for you.
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