U.S. media reported that during the early stages of the outbreak of a new coronavirus (CCP virus), Chinese company BGI offered to set up a virus testing laboratory in the United States, which U.S. intelligence officials warned could be used to collect DNA information on U.S. citizens.
Research, patent applications and other documents reviewed by Reuters show that BGI, the world’s largest genetic sequencing center, has collaborated with the Chinese Communist military on research ranging from large-scale testing of respiratory pathogens to brain science research.
More than 40 public documents and research papers in English and Chinese reviewed by Reuters show UW-Gene’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party‘s People’s Liberation Army, including research with China’s top military supercomputer experts. The scope of these relationships has not been previously reported in other media.
Since the outbreak of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, UWM has sold millions of quarantine reagents outside of China, including to Europe, Australia and the United States.
But U.S. Security officials have warned that laboratories should not use Chinese contamination tests because of concerns that China is trying to collect foreign genetic data for its own research. UWM has denied the allegations.
CBS’s “60 Minutes” reported that UW Genetics has offered to establish and operate testing laboratories in Washington, New York and California, among other states.
William Evanina, then head of counterintelligence at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), warned that states should not accept the offer.
Foreign powers can collect, store and use biometric information from novel coronavirus testing,” Evanina said on “60 Minutes.
Ivanina is concerned that the Chinese Communist Party may use companies like UW Genetics to collect biometric data. He believes that the secret collection of such biological data could threaten national security as the world begins to pay more attention to such assets.
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