More Than a Threat: China Collects Americans’ DNA
Commentary
In the past few years, the United States has come to the realization and consensus that China, with its ambition to achieve global domination and its complete disregard for ethics and humanity, has become the number one threat to the United States and the rest of the free world.
Espionage by China has long been a known threat, and each day the world learns a little bit more about the extensive reach of China’s information theft in many territories. The most recent discovery is that China has been openly and discreetly collecting America’s health care data, notably the DNA of the American people.
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National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) issued the warning in a fact sheet released on Feb. 1. The document said that China’s acquisition of sensitive healthcare and genetic data – both through legal and illegal means – threatens U.S. privacy and security.
According to the fact sheet, the Chinese regime utilized investments in American biotechnology firms and partnerships with hospitals and universities to obtain sensitive data. With vast amount of American citizens’ genetic information, China can overtake the U.S. in the field of biotechnology or weaponize this information for military operations.
NSCS’s warning came amid scrutiny surrounding Chinese genetics firm BGI Group. The Shenzhen-based genetics giant came under fire over its aggressive promotion of its COVID-19 test kits and support laboratories worldwide. The company has sold 35 million rapid coronavirus testing kits to 180 countries and built 58 laboratories in 18 nations as of August 2020.
January 25, 2021
Some two decades ahead of schedule, on Jan. 12, the Trump administration declassified its Indo-Pacific Strategic Framework, a document outlining its national security strategy regarding Asia. The document is critical, and the timing of its declassification was telling.
As National Security Advisor Robert C. O’Brien noted in a statement announcing its release, the framework “has provided overarching strategic guidance for implementing the 2017 National Security Strategy within the world’s most populous and economically dynamic region.”
By making the document public just before Inauguration Day as with itsotherrecentactionsandrevelationsregardingCommunist China the outgoing Trump administration delivered a message to its would-be soft-on-China successor: Do not deviate from the course we have charted in countering our most formidable adversary. A return to appeasement becomes more difficult when the extent of the Chinese Communist Party’s malignant end