Tibetan Police Mass-Collect DNA and Lawmakers Say U.S. Firm Is Helping

RealClearPolitics ^ | 19 Apr, 2023 | Susan Crabtree

[MtnClimber]

Legendary actor and humanitarian Richard Gere recently made a splash during a visit to Capitol Hill. Sporting a floppy, now pure-white mane of hair, the 73-year-old Gere flashed his still-boyish grin to members of Congress, staff, and visitors who flocked to see him, many snapping photos with the Golden Globe winner which they quickly shared on social media.

While Gere, who chairs the board of directors for the International Campaign for Tibet, graciously embraced the attention, he had a far more serious message and tone while testifying before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, the reason for his Washington visit.

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During the hearing, Rep. Chris Smith, a New Jersey Republican and longtime human rights champion who chairs the commission, cited a 2022 State Department report finding that the CCP has effectively placed Tibetan Buddhism under central government control and subjected Tibetan women to “coerced abortion or forced sterilization.”

At the end of his testimony, Gere urged members of Congress to follow the money – and scrutinize U.S. and Chinese business interests and any ongoing role these ties have played in assisting the CCP’s persecution of Tibetans. “It’s all about the money,” Gere lamented at the end of the hearing.

The message was well received. The four members of Congress who co-chair the commission had already begun an investigation into an American company’s sale of DNA testing kits and replacement parts to Tibetan authorities despite warnings from the U.S. government that the sale of such technologies could be used to intensify human rights abuses in several regions of China.

[MtnClimber]

I have personally seen hot horribly the Chinese treat the Tibetans. It was truly horrific.

[sten]

i’d guess the chinese will use the information to target Tibet as a test run for bio weapon targeting of genetic groups

[HYPOCRACY]

The company needs to be bankrupt and the board imprisoned. The CCP is evil personified.

[MtnClimber]

i’d guess the chinese will use the information to target Tibet as a test run for bio weapon targeting of genetic groups

That was my take as well. A captive experimental population.

[PIF]

The Company:
"Thermo Fisher Scientific, a Massachusetts-based firm that manufactures analytical and laboratory products, chemicals, and supplies including those used in COVID test kits and vaccines, had previously ceased the sale of similar supplies to police in Xinjiang. It only did so, however, after scientists and human rights groups raised concerns that the supplies were possibly being used in elaborate human tracking and surveillance databases and schemes - or worse, to identify ideal involuntary organ donors among persecuted ethnic and religious minorities across China. Xinjiang is where Chinese authorities have incarcerated a million or more residents, mostly Uyghur Muslims, placing them into labor camps."

[BitWielder1]

First Tibet, then Taiwan, then USA, then the World.

[moovova]

"Thermo Fisher Scientific, a Massachusetts-based firm that manufactures analytical and laboratory products, chemicals, and supplies including those used in COVID test kits and vaccines, had previously ceased the sale of similar supplies to police in Xinjiang."

Per wiki...

“Nalgene products are manufactured by Nalge Nunc International, which in 2004 became a subsidiary of Fisher Scientific, now Thermo Fisher Scientific.[1] The name Nalgene is a registered trademark."

Per Fisher Scientific's site...

Diversity & Inclusion

Fostering diversity and inclusion to drive equity and belonging

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, we enable our colleagues to openly share the wide range of perspectives that they represent, creating an environment where differences are truly valued, authenticity is a state-of-being, and everyone feels they belong and can do their best work.

[yelostar]

”...digital iron curtain” “...genetic surveillance”

Concepts we will have to get used to.

[ifinnegan]

Thanks.

ThermoFisher is a huge engineering company that has bought up many of the biotech innovator companies.

They are a great company in making product and service. They make excellent mass spectrometers.

I don’t think there is any law against this. It is not illegal but is immoral and/or amoral. It should be illegal.

US firms including our best tech companies have built the chicoms surveillance Orwellian state over the past 30 years.

[khelus]

“US firms including our best tech companies have built the chicoms surveillance Orwellian state over the past 30 years.”

and the Chinese economy was built at the expense of the American working class.