China has done human testing to create biologically enhanced super soldiers

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U.S. intelligence shows that China has conducted "human testing" on members of the People's Liberation Army in hope of developing soldiers with "biologically enhanced capabilities," the top U.S. intelligence official said Friday.

John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence, included that explosive claim in a long Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he made the case that China poses the pre-eminent national security threat to the U.S.

"There are no ethical boundaries to Beijing's pursuit of power," wrote Ratcliffe, a former Republican member of Congress from Texas.

His office and the CIA did not immediately respond to requests to elaborate on the notion that China sought to create "super soldiers" of the sort depicted in Hollywood films such as "Captain America," "Bloodshot" and "Universal Soldier."

Last year, two American scholars wrote a paper examining China's ambitions to apply biotechnology to the battlefield, including what they said were signs that China was interested in using gene-editing technology to enhance human — and perhaps soldier — performance.

Specifically, the scholars explored Chinese research using the gene-editing tool CRISPR, short for "clusters of regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats." CRISPR has been used to treat genetic diseases and modify plants, but Western scientists consider it unethical to seek to manipulate genes to boost the performance of healthy people.

"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," wrote 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 U.S. Navy officer.

"Chinese military scientists and strategists have consistently emphasized that biotechnology could become a 'new strategic commanding heights of the future Revolution in Military Affairs,'" the scholars wrote, quoting a 2015 article in a military newspaper.

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1 minute ago, BUtterfield 8 said:

There are no ethical boundaries to Beijing's pursuit of power

Says the American 

[Regina George 59,387]

Did they do this human testing on millions of muslims that are being tortured, sterilized, raped and killed in their camps just because they are muslims? China needs to be stopped and it's government needs to be prosecuted. 

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I-

what in the world? what does this mean?

[Damon 10,930]

can china give us a rest 

[xoxo Craig 55,649]

Was hoping they were doing human testing for a vaccine against covid... how wrong I was 

[ProdigyARTPOP 3,910]

I can’t stand humanity.

We really are bottom of the barrel 

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

So they basically admit to creating biological weapons 

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23 minutes ago, xoxo Craig said:

Was hoping they were doing human testing for a vaccine against covid... how wrong I was 

Me too

[Anderson123 42,687]

Imagine all the things we never get to know.

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Why biologically enhance people when god has already created Lady Gaga?

[TWICE on hatius 4,746]

Xi Jinping you will not see the gate

[IllusionLover 7,566]

Not China trying to create Captain Communist before America can create Captain America. 

[Ronnie 6,099]

Did we get sucked into a parallel universe?

Honestly though, technology is due for a huge boost. 

Remember in the 80’s & 90’s when no one could fathom the thought of computers being an essential part of our lives? 

Now we have access to countless amenities from a device that fits in our pockets.