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China conducting biological tests to create super soldiers, US spy chief says
China has conducted testing on its army in the hope of creating biologically enhanced soldiers, according to the top intelligence official in the US.
John Ratcliffe, who has served as Donald Trump's director of national intelligence since May, made the claims in a newspaper editorial, where he warned that China "poses the greatest threat to America today".
[...] "US intelligence shows that China has even conducted human testing on members of the People's Liberation Army in hope of developing soldiers with biologically enhanced capabilities," Ratcliffe wrote. "There are no ethical boundaries to Beijing's pursuit of power."
Also at The Wall Street Journal (archive), BioSpace and Interesting Engineering:
In a report published last year in Jamestown, the authors Elsa Kania and Wilson VornDick offer insight into China's interest in gene editing.
"While the potential leveraging of CRISPR to increase human capabilities on the future battlefield remains only a hypothetical possibility at the present, there are indications that Chinese military researchers are starting to explore its potential," state the scholars, Elsa Kania, an expert on Chinese defense technology at the Center for a New American Security, and Wilson VornDick, a consultant on China matters and former Navy officer.
See also: State Dept. terminates five exchange programs with China, calling them 'propaganda'
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 07 2020, @12:31AM (5 children)
*yawn*
Which of your more traditional politicians have demonstrated more ethics than Trump? Those who do seem to be rejected out of hand, like maybe a Tulsi Gabbard. Pick your favorite politician, and we'll all join in to tear him/her a few new orifices. Trump's single biggest fault, was to run at the mouth all the time, thereby alienating people he didn't need to alienate.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Monday December 07 2020, @02:58PM (1 child)
Trump's running at the mouth was a minor flaw that revealed the major flaws of who he actually is. It is the things Trump did that are the major flaws.
Is running at the mouth a bigger flaw the locking children in cages? Separating them from their parents? Deliberating ensuring that they will never be reunited?
What about throwing paper towels to the people of Puerto Rico to demonstrate that he is "helping" while musing about selling Puerto Rico and complaining that they are poor.
I could go on, but running at the mouth is NOT Trump's biggest flaw. It merely exposed who he really is.
Every performance optimization is a grate wait lifted from my shoulders.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 07 2020, @03:35PM
Locking children into cages approved by Obama, and sold to the government by Biden? Ooooohhhh, how TERRIBLE!
The rest of that? Puhhh-LEASE. I never took it seriously, but obviously you do.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 07 2020, @03:59PM
There are limits to political donations.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Monday December 07 2020, @09:01PM (1 child)
BWAHAHAHAH!
More ethics than Trump? Even the worst politician with only a shred of ethics is better, since Trump has none to speak of.
Running at the mouth is one thing, constantly spewing bullshit while doing so is worse. He lies so much that you can't trust anything he says, even if it happens to be true.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 07 2020, @10:14PM
Right. And, the question was, which politicians are better?
For example, I follow these people off and on https://www.numbersusa.com [numbersusa.com] They have actually made political donations to candidates who PROMISE to work for Number's goals. Candidate signs a pledge, takes the money, gets elected, and very promptly vote the opposite way that they pledged to vote. (sorry, not digging for names, if you're really interested you can search the site, if not, oh well)
Any number of promises can be made and broken by candidates, and everyone forgives them, and reelects them based on yet more empty promises.
And, Trump is somehow WORSE?
I insist that his worst trait was running at the mouth nonstop, giving his enemies more and more ammunition to use against him. He really isn't more corrupt than most of the politicians in Washington, starting with Pelosi.
I'll grant that a few of the newer members have only exhibited some minor corruption - like AOC doing that photo spread wearing more value in clothing than she had to her name before arriving in Washington. Money changed hands there, if all that expensive clothing didn't go along with it.
Seriously, name names if you have less corrupt politicians that you wish me to know of.