US claims China is developing 'brain control' weaponry; sanctions groups

[DrBanneker]

From Financial Times:
US accuses China of developing ‘brain control weaponry’

Article is paywalled but below are excerpts

The US has put China’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences and 11 affiliated biotechnology research institutes on an export blacklist for allegedly helping the Chinese military to develop “brain-control” weapons. The US commerce department on Thursday put the research institutes on the “entity list”, which bars US companies from exporting technology that originated in America to the Chinese institutions. “China is choosing to use these technologies to pursue control over its people and its repression of members of ethnic and religious minority groups,” said Gina Raimondo, US commerce secretary.

A senior US official said China was using emerging biotechnologies to try to develop future military applications that included “gene editing, human performance enhancement [and] brain machine interfaces”.

The US official said Chinese authorities were using biometric facial recognition for mass surveillance in Xinjiang and had collected DNA samples from all Xinjiang residents from age 12 to 65.

To be real, in this superpower propaganda war you can't believe everything people state (e.g. Elon Musk is trying to do the same brain-machine interface stuff with Neuralink) but if true Xi Jinping looks like he wants to borderline be Sauron and shyt

 

[King Sun]

More red scare BS.

 

[Jeshaman]

Lmao

 

[TL15]

So cell phones and social media?

 

[MajesticLion]

These things usually conveniently leave out the part where China stole the existing research from western entities...and that they're already out in the wild in whatever capacity.

 

[PharaohAtem]

 

[Paper Boi]

More red scare BS.

havana syndrome pt 2

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

Lmao restoring that cold war feeling

Honestly thats probably the only shot America has at getting its shyt together. Merica wouldn't have given a shyt about no damn moon landing if the soviets didn't show off their rocket technology or civil rights if the USSR didn't stay on that neck on some "yeah at least we don't sic dogs on and hang our citizens like barbarians. We don't let our war heroes get humiliated and killed by the same people whose rights they fought to protect. Rights they aren't willing to extend to them because of skin color "

Scientists used to just say "the soviets are..." and the response would just be "Say less. how much do you need and how fast can you do it. "

China has been putting stupid money into green tech and AI while we can't even scrape together cash to fix literally crumbling roads. Them rice cacs have high speed rail and mag lev trains while pigeons and rats are slapboxing on ancient NYC hardware

If what we need is another cold war style boogeyman to get shyt done, fukk it lets go

 

[RARI_Godwind]