China is developing brain-control weapons that can be used to paralyze and control opponents rather than kill them, the US has claimed.
America has sanctioned the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences and 11 affiliated research institutes for using “biotechnology” to support its armed forces, including “alleged brain control weapons.”
The Commerce Ministry, which has blacklisted China’s institutions, did not go into detail about the weapons, but a separate tranche of military documents written in 2019 hints at what Beijing is trying to achieve.
Instead of “destroying bodies,” China should focus on “stunning and controlling the adversary” by “attacking the enemy,” the report said.
The US has sanctioned the Chinese Academy of Military and Medical Sciences (pictured) and 11 associated institutes for allegedly developing ‘brain control weponary’
The Department of Commerce sanctioned the research institutes in a memo last week, and the 2019 documents were obtained and translated by the Washington Times.
The Academy of Military Sciences and its subsidiaries are now on the “entity list,” meaning unlicensed U.S. companies cannot export or transfer goods.
It comes amid warnings from other government departments to US companies that China is trying to acquire US technology in key fix sectors, including biotech.
An official, speaking with the FT, said the technology China is trying to develop includes “gene editing, enhancing human performance.” [and] brain machine interfaces.’
US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said there are concerns that China will use such weapons to maintain control over its own citizens, including Uyghur Muslims from ethnic minorities.
“Unfortunately, the People’s Republic of China is choosing to use these technologies to pursue population control and oppression of members of ethnic and religious minority groups,” she said.
“We cannot allow U.S. goods, technologies and software that support medical science and biotech innovation to be diverted into uses that violate U.S. national security.”
The Commerce Department has also blacklisted companies from China, as well as Georgia, Malaysia and Turkey, for allegedly forwarding US articles to Iran’s military, a US adversary against which Washington maintains far-reaching sanctions.
The Academy of Military Medical Sciences, based in Beijing, has been active in developing a Covid-19 vaccine. But the United States is increasingly alarmed by the connections between civil and military research in China.
Americans are now banned from trading with the academy without a license as the US fears their technology will be used to develop weapons to oppress minorities, including Uyghurs (resistant)
Law experts, witnesses and the US government say more than a million Uyghurs and other Turkish-speaking Muslims are being held in camps in an attempt to eradicate their Islamic cultural traditions and forcibly homogenize them into China’s Han majority.
Beijing describes the sites as vocational training centers and says it, like many other Western countries, is trying to diminish the appeal of radical Islam after deadly attacks.
The United States has described the campaign as genocide and plans, amid growing concern, a boycott of official representation at the Beijing Winter Games next year.
The United States is expected to soon become the first country to ban all imports from Xinjiang, arguing that camp labor is so widespread that it is difficult to separate it from other goods.
After lengthy negotiations, lawmakers from the two sides and the Biden administration have reached an agreement on the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which will ban the importation of all goods from the region unless there is verifiable evidence that production does not involve slavery. is involved.
Xinjiang is a major source of cotton, with the Workers Rights Consortium monitoring factories and estimating that 20 percent of clothing imported into the United States each year contains material from the region.
“We must take a clear moral stance towards those who suffer from forced labour. No more business as usual,” Representative Jim McGovern said after the House last week passed the bill expected to be passed by the Senate and signed by Biden.
The United States also last week imposed sanctions on two ethnic Uyghur political leaders in the Chinese administration of Xinjiang.
Earlier Thursday, China expressed anger at US sanctions against four Chinese chemical weapons and one person for allegedly fueling the painkiller trade through illegal online shipments.
“This kind of erroneous act, where one side is sick but forces the other to take the medicine, is not constructive,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters.
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