The US sanctions Chinese companies for mass DNA collection and social control
The Biden administration announced Thursday that it has placed the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences along with 11 other institutes involved in biotechnology on an export blacklist for their involvement in assisting the communist government's oppression and surveillance of the population. Muslim Uyghur.
Among other things, the companies' advanced technology is being used for DNA collection as a key social control measure in the Xinjiang region, as part of efforts to use genetic technology to improve mass surveillance capabilities. "These actions come within the broader context of the administration's efforts to address the misuse of technology to oversee and in many cases … to exert large-scale repressive social control," a senior US official told the Wall Street Journal. Biden administration. The danger is also that the samples will also be taken outside of China, allowing a worldwide DNA database in the hands of Beijing .
Furthermore, the Treasury Department said that "the action highlights how private companies in China's defense and surveillance technology sectors are actively cooperating with government efforts to persecute ethnic minorities."
Blacklisted of entities that U.S. companies can no longer invest in are trading giant DJI Technology Co. and government-linked facial recognition technology development companies. It follows in the wake of the sanctions earlier days ago, most notably against the large facial recognition company SenseTime. Who knows if European governments are investing with these companies for their own social control systems, as SenseTime has repeatedly appeared in reports of its introduction into the EU, and only recently dropped plans to set up a UK office.
Also on the list are facial recognition software start-up Megvii, as well as Dawning Information Industry, which provides supercomputer-based cloud computing services based in Xinjiang. The growing list of Chinese military-industrial complex companies banned from Commerce and the Treasury will reach nearly 70 by the end of this week.
In some noteworthy cases, the sanctions took immediate effect: “SenseTime said this week that it would postpone its initial public offering of $ 767 million to Hong Kong after the Chinese artificial intelligence company was blacklisted. of US investments, ”according to reports.
Beijing responded forcefully , obviously speaking of US interference and stating that it will assist in any way its companies damaged by American measures.
The study of DNA and extensive sampling would allow the birth of both almost infallible mass control systems, and the study of biological weapons aimed at a personal level.
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