In 2015, then-president of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences He Fuchu argued that biotechnology will become the new “strategic commanding heights” of national defense, from biomaterials to “brain control” weapons. Maj. Gen. He has since become the vice president of the Academy of Military Sciences, which leads China’s military science enterprise.
Biology is among seven “new domains of warfare” discussed in a 2017 book by Zhang Shibo, a retired general and former president of the National Defense University, who concludes: “Modern biotechnology development is gradually showing strong signs characteristic of an offensive capability,” including the possibility that “specific ethnic genetic attacks” could be employed.
The 2017 edition of Science of Military Strategy, a textbook published by the PLA’s National Defense University that is considered to be relatively authoritative, debuted a section about biology as a domain of military struggle, similarly mentioning the potential for new kinds of biological warfare to include “specific ethnic genetic attacks.”
Non Asians, I'm assuming. Although old men have proven to be hit hardest.
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The great Khan Noonien Singh to come from a Chinese lab.
The last major Fascist power (Germany) had a thing for producing “supermen” and a master race, too.
It’s an extension of Marxist Dogma.
Not that new, just better tech.
WW1 had chem and bio weapons.
Low cost
and hard to detect until it is deployed