Multiple studies accuse UW Genetics of collecting genes around the world for the Chinese Communist Party, and a former U.S. State Department think tank questions the Chinese Communist Party’s release of a virus causing global disaster. In this photo, staff perform nucleic acid testing at a testing laboratory set up by Huada Genetics in Wuhan, China, in February 2020. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
The news of Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie’s prevention of breast cancer through genetic testing 10 years ago led to the popularity of genetic sequencing. As technology has evolved, and especially as the cost of genetic sequencing has decreased, people in all countries are now faced with increasingly enticing advertising campaigns for everything from genealogical tracing to discovering a child’s talents to disease prevention.
However, consumers interested in trying genetic testing need to be careful, as personal biological samples sent to genetic companies in their home countries are likely to be silently sent to Chinese Communist laboratories for sequencing and analysis, and eventually to the Chinese Communist Party’s gene pool, leaving their own and their families’ health, and even the safety of their race and country, in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.
BGI and the Chinese Communist Party Target Americans’ Genes
Not only does BGI work closely with Huawei, but it has also established close ties with U.S. research, hospitals and influential foundations.
According to the Wall Street Journal, BGI has not only established ties with Harvard University, the University of Washington, Johns Hopkins University, Bill Gates’ foundation, but even has labs in Silicon Valley, Seattle, and Cambridge, Massachusetts (home of Harvard University).
Long before the new crown epidemic, BGI showed a continued and strong interest in sequencing genes given to Americans.
According to a February 14, 2019 report by the U.S.-China Economic Security Review Commission (USCC) (link to report), the Chinese Communist Party has been infiltrating the biological data of Americans, including using BGI to collect the genes of Americans.
For example, according to a November 2011 report by genengnews (original article), BGI and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) announced a partnership to use BGI’s genetic sequencing technology and CHOP’s pediatric biology database for genomic project research.
According to the University of California, Davis website (link), BGI has also partnered with the university to establish the BGI Gene Sequencing Center at the university to conduct research using the university’s biological database.
USCC also cites examples of BGI’s collaboration with U.S. medical institutions such as Autism Speaks for genetic research.
In addition to partnering with U.S. hospitals, research institutions and foundations to gain access to genetic data on Americans, BGI also has an official license to analyze genetic data on Americans.
The UW Genetics Hong Kong laboratory received CAP certification from the College of American Pathologists (CAP) in 2015 and 2017, and a CLIA license from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Certification, which is a required license to provide clinical services to Americans; CAP is an optional, credible industry standard certification.
In its 2019 report, the USCC noted that CLIA/CAP certification opens the door to accessing health data on Americans, including genetic information. the USCC report identifies 23 Chinese companies that have received CLIA/CAP certification to conduct analytical diagnostics and other genetic testing in the United States.
In July 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) placed two companies, Xinjiang Silk Road and Beijing Liuhe, which are part of the UWM, on the entity sanctions list. The U.S. government has accused BGI of helping the Chinese Communist Party monitor and violate human rights.
BGI has denied the U.S. government’s allegations, insisting that it does not collect patient data.
While there is no certainty as to whether or how much genetic data BGI has collected from the United States, official announcements from mainland China have confirmed that BGI has been punished by authorities for passing genetic data of Chinese patients out of the country without permission.
On September 7, 2015 the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Science and Technology punished BGI for passing genetic data of Chinese people out of the country without permission. (Screenshot from the official website of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Communist Party of China)
According to the “Administrative Punishment Decision Letter Guo Ke Pun [2015] No. 2” (original text) made by the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Communist Party of China on September 7, 2015, UW-Gen and Huashan Hospital cooperated with Oxford University in the United Kingdom without permission, and “UW-Gen transmitted part of the human genetic resources information out of the country from the Internet without permission”; the above acts violated the “Interim Measures for Human Interim Measures for Human Genetic Resources Management” (Guo Ban Fa [1998] No. 36), Article 4, Article 11 and Article 16, according to which the Ministry of Science and Technology punished UWST.
The administrative punishment decision at least illustrates, first, that BGI used to collect patients’ genetic data and transmit them out of the country; and second, that the CCP is very strict in regulating genetic materials such as Chinese people’s genes.
As early as 1998, the Interim Measures on Human Genetic Resources Management drafted by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the former Ministry of Health stipulated that no unit or individual could collect or provide genetic resources of Chinese people to the public without permission.
In February 2016 the CPC published the Regulations on Human Genetic Resources Management (Draft for Examination); the draft for examination emphasized that biosecurity is an important part of national security and that strengthening the management of human genetic resources is an important measure to safeguard national security and racial security.
The Regulation on Human Genetic Resources Management was approved in May 2019 (link to the regulation) and came into effect on July 1, 2019.
In contrast to the CCP’s emphasis and vigilant approach to human genetic material, such as genes, the U.S. law appears to focus solely on protecting individual privacy. For example, the USCC 2019 report notes that current U.S. law does not prohibit Chinese companies from accessing the health data of Americans who are de-identified (de-identified).
The USCC believes that UWM may be building a genetic database of Americans.
William Evanina said on CBS that it is “110 percent likely” that the Chinese Communist Party has obtained personal data on Americans, including U.S. institutions that outsource genetic sequencing to Chinese companies.
Why UW “favors” U.S. genes
Why does BGI care so much about American genes?
The scientific community often interprets this to mean that Americans have a wealth of genetic data that is significant for biological research and the manufacture of new drugs, but the U.S. government is concerned that the Chinese Communist Party’s ambitions for American genes extend far beyond science and industry.
The USCC 2019 report argues that the CCP is able to use this data to cause great harm to the personal and national security of the American public.
Ed You, head of the FBI’s Biological Countermeasures Division, told the Financial Times in July 2017 (link to original article) that the data would be used not only to create commercially valuable new biological drugs, but also to research dreaded genetic weapons.
This view is not alarmist. Human genetic data can be used not only for peaceful purposes, such as tracing family ancestors back to their roots, or for deciphering disease-causing genes and developing targeted drugs, but also for weaponization, gene editing, and tailoring biological/genetic weapons of mass genocide (genetically engineered weapons) to target genetic weaknesses.
According to the MIT Technology Review in February 2016 (original article), the then Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, in his “Global Threat Assessment” report, listed gene editing technology, which is designed to create biological weapons, as the greatest security threat. In his “Global Threat Assessment,” then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper listed genetic editing, which is designed to create biological weapons, as the greatest security threat.
So, what could the Chinese Communist Party be doing by collecting Americans’ genes?
Chinese authorities have denied collecting American genes and have even accused the U.S. government of doing so. However, the Chinese military publicly endorsed genetic weapons several years ago.
The Chinese Communist Party’s “Liberation Army Daily” newspaper of November 10, 2017
According to the November 10, 2017 report “How Genetic Weapons Could Impact Future Warfare” (PDF link) by the Chinese Communist Party military’s PLA Daily, genetic weapons are a new generation of biological weapons developed by modifying the genetic code of disease-causing microorganisms through gene editing technology, and are new viruses and bacteria “cut out” that will serve as It is a strategic deterrent. The report suggests that the U.S. military is harvesting the genes of Russians or using them to create bacteriological weapons.
Last year, the U.S. government proposed to put gene editing technology on the export control list, issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on November 6, 2020 (link to Department of Commerce notice).
UWM is cheap but costly to use
The U.S. government has been warning universities, hospitals and other institutions about the potential risks of BGI for years, but it is still hard to resist the lure of BGI to American society.
BGI’s gene sequencing is inexpensive and will even offer free products to U.S. customers. According to a report in MIT Technology Review on Feb. 26 of last year (original article), UW Genetics announced that month at a genetic technology conference in Florida that it would lower the price of sequencing the entire human genome to less than $100. Complete Genomics, the California-based company that developed the new genetic sequencing device for UW, was acquired by UW Genetics in 2013. Since then, BGI has transformed itself from a downstream application-based customer for gene sequencing to an upstream equipment manufacturer for the genetic industry.
The China Daily reported in January that U.S. officials were quoted as saying that UW’s rapid growth was due in part to the company’s low or no-cost provision of equipment.
While BGI’s product service is very cheap, the cost of using it can be unbearably high.
The 2018 case of Chinese scholar He Jiankui’s gene-edited babies sparked international attention and condemnation. Although under public pressure, He Jiankui was sentenced to three years in prison by a Communist Party of China court in Shenzhen in 2019. But outside of China, little is known to the public that BGI’s ambitions far exceed those of its counterpart He Jiankui.
Wang Jian (fourth from right), founder of BGI, poses for a photo in the lobby of the gene bank when Huada Genetics built the national gene bank for the CCP in 2011. (Web screenshot)
For example, Wang Jian, the founder of BGI, has made no secret of his quest for immortality and has declared that he will “synthesize any life”.
According to a report by the mainland media Punch News on March 1 last year (original article), Wang Jian, chairman of BGI, said at the 2017 Shenzhen Business Conference that “in the next 5-10 years, we can chemically synthesize any life” and that “whether you like it or not, it’s here. “.
The BGI’s no-holds-barred style fits the CCP’s ambition and need for domination.
On August 1, 2018, the CCP’s Xi’an Public Security Bureau and Xi’an Huada Gene signed a strategic cooperation agreement. (Link to Tencent News official website report)
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) report “Genetic Surveillance” (original article), released in June 2020, revealed that the CCP is collecting DNA samples in large numbers to build the world’s largest police DNA database, including tens of millions of people without criminal records; and that UW Genetics signed an agreement with the CCP to collect biological samples and build a gene bank for the public security department.
The report also said that the CCP collected DNA from ethnic minorities in Tibet and Xinjiang in 2013 and 2016, respectively, in the name of annual health checks; since the end of 2017, the program has been expanded to other regions of China. The report comes a month after the U.S. government imposed sanctions on two BGI companies for UW’s assistance in monitoring and persecuting Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
Steven W. Mosher, director of the Population Research Institute, wrote in the Epoch Times two years ago that the Chinese Communist Party is building a human gene pool through a global collection of biogenetic companies and could weaponize it.
Top U.S. think tank questions CCP virus research
The recent WHO report on the traceability of the new coronavirus (CCP virus), which almost completely dismissed the possibility of a Wuhan lab leak, has sparked renewed controversy.
But Robert Redfield, a virologist and recently retired director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said in a CNN interview (originally broadcast on March 26) that the new coronavirus most likely came from a leak at the Wuhan lab.
Multiple studies have pointed to traces or the possibility of gene editing in the new coronavirus. Several papers published by the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and works with the Chinese Communist military, suggest that WIV’s Shi Zhengli team had done intensive genetic research on the coronavirus, including the construction of an AIDS pseudovirus with the SARS coronavirus protein; and that Shi’s team submitted the new horseshoe bat virus RaTG13, the possible culprit of the new coronavirus, within weeks of the outbreak. However, the RaTG13 virus had been snowed under by the laboratory of Wuhan Institute of Virology for seven years.
Chinese Communist Party’s PLA Daily newspaper, November 10, 2017
The Chinese Communist Party’s “Liberation Army Newspaper” has said that genetic weapons are new viruses “cut out”, and that genetic weapons do not distinguish between military and civilian “massacres”, and that “if they are not operated properly or are unlucky” and leak, they will hurt their own people. The newspaper has said that genetic weapons are “cut” new viruses, and that the “slaughter” of genetic weapons does not distinguish between civilian and military, and that “if they are not handled properly or are unlucky” and leak, they will hurt their own people, which is like “lifting a stone and hitting their own feet.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his chief China adviser Yu Maochun also wrote in the Wall Street Journal on Feb. 23 that the Chinese Communist Party’s “great leap forward” in researching biological viruses and its lack of attention to biosecurity has led to a tragic global cost in the new plague.
Gordon Chang, a leading China expert, argues that the New Guinea plague is an attack and “mass murder” by the Chinese Communist Party on the world. Chang contends that many countries have biological weapons research programs for defense purposes, but that the Chinese Communist Party deliberately pushed the New Guinea virus out of the country.
Pompeo and Yu Maochun’s article reveals that the 2003 Sars (SARS) virus caused the CCP to become obsessed with researching biological viruses. Coincidentally, it was also during the 2003 SARS epidemic that Huada Genetics received further support from the CCP, which led to its rapid rise.
Current affairs commentator Li Linyi said that the current New Crown plague has pushed BGI to the world, and UW took the opportunity of virus testing to collect genes in a grand manner worldwide.
The Chinese Communist Party’s 14th Five-Year Plan, which was recently released this year, continues to include genetics and biotechnology as a priority. Li Linyi believes that the CCP and BGI will likely continue to collect genetic data, including from Americans, to prepare for future genetic wars.
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