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Opening Insights: World War III<\/h2>\n

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,<\/em>
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
<\/em>ALBERT EINSTEIN<\/p>\n

The following article was published by The Washington Times, \u201ca trusted counterweight to the mainstream media.\u201d It was written by Jed Babbin, former deputy undersecretary of Defense in the George H.W. Bush administration, and author of \u201cIn the Words of Our Enemies.\u201d.<\/p>\n

Informational Insights: <\/h2>\n
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China's thinking about military applications of biological warfare must be taken seriously<\/p>\n

Civilized nations are bound to obey the law of war embodied in the Geneva Conventions. The Conventions outlaw acts such as the intentional targeting of civilian populations and the creation and stockpiling of biological weapons. Despite those obligations,\u00a0China<\/a>\u00a0is evidently eager to violate the Conventions because of opportunities presented by the advance of medical science.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At least since the 2002 publication of \u201cUnrestricted Warfare,\u201d a book by two People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) colonels, Chinese military thinking has extended the concept of a battlefield to every aspect of military and civilian existence. The unlimited \u201cbattlefield\u201d now means that\u00a0China<\/a>\u00a0intends to include biological warfare among the most significant means of fighting a war.\u00a0<\/p>\n

From several news reports beginning in 2019 we know of a 2010 book called, \u201cWar for Biological Dominance,\u201d by a professor at China\u2019s Third Military Medical University, which emphasized the use of biological warfare. The theoretical basis continued in a 2015 essay by Gen. He Fuchu (then-president of China\u2019s Academy of Military Medical Sciences) in which he argued that biotechnology\u00a0will become the new \u201cstrategic commanding heights\u201d of national defense, from biomaterials to \u201cbrain control\u201d\u00a0weapons.<\/p>\n

Theory was made into doctrine in the 2017 edition of a PLA National Defense University textbook which debuted a section about biology as a domain of military struggle, mentioning the potential for new kinds of biological warfare to include \u201cspecific ethnic genetic attacks.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

China<\/a>\u00a0is evidently eager to violate its obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention, part of the Geneva Conventions, which prohibits the development and stockpiling of biological and toxin weapons.<\/p>\n

China<\/a>\u00a0has reportedly begun using genomic science \u2014 the study of DNA \u201cprofiles\u201d of individuals and ethnic groups \u2014 to identify its Uighur Muslim population, which is being severely oppressed. It has also created a national \u201cgene bank,\u201d intending to make it the world\u2019s largest depository of genomic data.<\/p>\n

CFIUS \u2014 the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. \u2014 is an interagency group that has regulatory power over foreign purchases of U.S. companies and real estate. The State Department and the Department of Defense both play prominent roles in it. Under the Obama-Biden administration, CFIUS foolishly approved Beijing Genomics Incorporated\u2019s (BGI\u2019s) purchase of Complete Genomics Inc., (CGI) a U.S. company, in 2012.<\/p>\n

By approving that purchase, CFIUS gave BGI access to CGI\u2019s database of American DNA profiles and entry into the U.S. genomics market. It was akin to enabling the Chinese company Huawei to build a 5G network in the U.S., which President Trump stopped, because an Huawei-built 5G network would give\u00a0China<\/a>\u00a0access to virtually all U.S. data.<\/p>\n

BGI claims it is not owned by the Chinese government, but that claim is in doubt because of its several connections to the Beijing regime. BGI hosts government laboratories and several of its executives are former government officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In July, two subsidiaries of BGI \u2014 Xinjiang Silk Road BGI and Beijing Liuhe BGI \u2014 were blacklisted by the United States for their helping the Chinese identify and oppress the Uighurs. BGI itself apparently wasn\u2019t blacklisted because it is heavily involved in genetic studies with companies in the U.S., meaning it has access to vastly more American DNA profiles than the acquisition of CGI gave it.<\/p>\n

We have to take seriously China\u2019s thinking about military applications of biological warfare, including specific \u201cethnic genetic attacks.\u201d By broadening the concept of biowarfare \u2014 which it labels one of the principal domains of war \u2014 into fields such as genomics, the study of human DNA,\u00a0China<\/a>\u00a0intends to create weapons based on genomic data. The concept is not fanciful.<\/p>\n

The COVID-19 pandemic, which originated in Wuhan,\u00a0China<\/a>, may have been accidentally or intentionally released from a government laboratory or it may have naturally occurred and been transmitted to humans in a \u201cwet market\u201d that sold animals such as bats and dogs for food. We will never really know. What we do know is that the Chinese government, initially insisting that the virus was not transmittable between humans, let people travel from Wuhan around the world spreading the virus. \u00a0<\/p>\n

China\u2019s study of \u201cethnic genetic attacks,\u201d however, could soon mean that viruses or other biological organisms could be tailored, by editing their genes, to affect specific ethnic groups or even individuals. Chinese genomic scientists could soon create a virus that would affect Caucasians, Africans or other ethnic groups but not Chinese.\u00a0<\/p>\n

An American genomic scientist I spoke to, who requested anonymity, spoke enthusiastically about tailoring cancer treatments to individuals, using their DNA to amplify the effect of treatments. China\u2019s strategies turn that around, to making tailored genomic weapons.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s focus on genomic warfare has attracted the attention of both the FBI\u2019s biological countermeasures unit and the Air Force\u2019s Office of Special Investigation. Both are reportedly highly concerned about the national security effect resulting from the enormous amount of genomic data being gathered in the United States falling into Chinese hands. It must be made illegal for companies such as BGI to access U.S. genomic data and to export such data.<\/p>\n

We cannot affect China\u2019s march to genomic weapons. Their development and China\u2019s ability to deploy them effectively may be years away, but\u00a0China<\/a>\u00a0is in a race to enable it to wage war in new and entirely devastating ways. Right now, it\u2019s an arms race in which\u00a0China<\/a>\u00a0is competing only with itself.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/nov\/5\/can-the-world-stop-chinas-surge-into-biological-wa\/<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This article originally appeared in THE WASHINGTON TIMES: Can the world stop China's surge into biological warfare?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Possibilities for Consideration: Unlimited Battlefield<\/h2>\n

It is clear that China's battle for world dominion will not be won with bullets and bombs, but by a careful long-term strategy that weakens all who could <\/em>stand against them. <\/p>\n

Consider what is currently happening to the world as a result of the overhyped COVID scare. Who is to blame? Perhaps no one country can claim responsibility, but if the intentions of the Chinese leadership are to be taken seriously, we should be fortifying ourselves on every front, especially those not of the battlefield.<\/p>\n

Add Your Insight<\/h2>\n

Take a moment and examine\u2026<\/p>\n