Biohacked
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Biohacked

China's Race to Control Life

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Biohacked

China's Race to Control Life

About this book

When COVID-19 erupted from Wuhan, China under mysterious circumstances, the Communist Party of China covered up its existence for as long as possible. It is now apparent that there is more to COVID than what the authorities wish for us to know. Biohacked: China's Race to Control Life details the decades-long pursuit by the Chinese Communists to dominate the biotechnology industryā€”to control the very building blocks of life on Earthā€”to further their political control at home and their supremacy abroad.

More appalling than the egregious cover-up that China's rulers engaged in with COVID-19 is the fact that Western scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and research labs have contributed to China's rapid (and dangerous) growth in the biotech industryā€”so much so that China, not the United States, may become the seat of the biotechnology industry. The Chinese leadership believes that biotechnology is a critical industry for the Communist Party to achieve its "China Dream" of becoming the world's dominant superpower by 2049. In China's biotech sector, truly macabre practices are being developed, from ambitious cloning programs to the creation of potential pathogens that China's military plans to use in "specific genetic attacks" against Beijing's growing list of political enemies.

To stop the threat, author Brandon J. Weichert proposes the world's nations create a comprehensive set of treaties for regulating biotechnology research and development. Further, Weichert calls for Washington to slow the transfer of advanced biotechnology knowledge and funding from the United States to China using means like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

Unless an all-of-government (and society) approach is taken to curbing irresponsible biotech development in China, then anotherā€”deadlierā€”COVID-19-like pandemic could be at hand.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword: Chinaā€™s Civilization-Killing Machine
  5. Introduction: War Goes Microscopic
  6. Chapter 1: Warfare Through Other Means
  7. Chapter 2: Loose Lips (and COVID-19) Sink Ships
  8. Chapter 3: Big Things Have Small Beginnings
  9. Chapter 4: Of Pandemics and Censorship
  10. Chapter 5: The True Origins of COVID-19
  11. Chapter 6: Biological Terror: Made in China
  12. Chapter 7: Gain-of-Function Tests
  13. Chapter 8: Who Benefited from COVID-19?
  14. Chapter 9: Biological 9/11
  15. Chapter 10: From Winnipeg to Wuhan
  16. Chapter 11: Tom Cotton Demands Answers About COVID-19
  17. Chapter 12: Rand Paul Wants to Fire Fauci (With Good Reason)
  18. Chapter 13: Eggheads
  19. Chapter 14: Thousand Talents
  20. Chapter 15: An Arrogant Academic or High-Tech Spy?
  21. Chapter 16: China Steals US Governmentā€“Funded Cancer Research
  22. Chapter 17: NIH, DARPA, and the CCP
  23. Chapter 18: Knockinā€™ on All Under Heavenā€™s Door
  24. Chapter 19: Donā€™t Go Down to Biolake
  25. Chapter 20: China Creates Pig-Man (and Other Nightmares)
  26. Chapter 21: Bionationalism vs. Bioglobalism
  27. Chapter 22: Specific Genetic Attacks
  28. Chapter 23: Biohacked!
  29. Acknowledgments
  30. Bibliography
  31. Notes
  32. Index
  33. Copyright