Re Gen Shihbo and his “ethnic bioweapons targeting” concept.
This might be based on an old Sci-Fi book about a Red Chinese attack on the US and the resistance to it by a group of American scientists. They find a bacteria/virus that attacks a gene (or something related to it in the blood) that was particular to the Chinese.
By making this into a weapon, it defeated the Reds. By the way, as I recall, the Commies in the story were using biological weapons against prisoners in gulags that would kill them by the thousands.
IF I FOUND THE BOOK’S TITLE, I’LL POST IT TO THIS COMMENT.
The paperback SciFi book I want is buried in a box among about 1000 other books and reports. Not a chance in hell that I can find it immediately. Just tried.
However:
*possibility it was entitled “600 Million to One” or something like that. There was a WW2 ppb about a downed pilot who landed on an island in the Pacific occupied by thousands of Japanese soldiers and how he survived with the help of native islanders. It might be a book entitled “6,000 or 60,000 to 1”.
***HOWEVER, I found a great precursor to the Red Chinese claim about a “genetic warfare weapon”.
July 1988, “Soviet Active Measures in the Era of Glasnost”, US House of Representatives, hearing Mach 8, 1988, Charles Z Wick, Director USIA (a successor testimony to the earlier “Covert Action” hearings a couple years earlier.
In this report is (subjects of Soviet disinformation/programs are organized by time/subject) a section entitled “The Ethnic Weapon” that starts out saying:
“Since at least 1980, the Soviet press has been circulating claims that the United States is conducting research on or has developed a so-called “ethnic weapon,” which would kill only non-whites.”
... “Chronology”.... page (p. 15)
- “May 26, 1980: The official Soviet communist party newspaper PRAVDA charged that a U.S. naval laboratory in W est Oakland ‘was engaged in developing bacteriological means capable of affecting certain groups of people belonging, for example, to a particular race,’ claiming that “the U.S. military department conducted trials of ‘ethnic viruses’ in California in 1977”.
What followed was pages of examples of Soviet ‘ethnic warfare’ disinformation stories mainly concerning Latin America and the Middle East, published in both legitimate and KGB-funded papers. The articles also included Israel and So. Africa as countries developing ethnic weapons for use against non-white peoples.
Hope this helps understand what the Red Chinese are doing, just resurrecting old KGB disinformation lies.
The concept of an ethnic-specific bioweapon have been around for a long time.
Systemic Shock.
The Soviet Union falls and China/India nuke the US. Towards the end of the book, an engineered virus China was developing got loose in China. American scientists had discovered this project and had developed a vaccine that they put into chocolate rations for their troops and eventually everyone on our side.
The conflict more or less wound down at this point as Chinese soldiers began infecting each other and their citizens with a horrid bioweapon that would basically leave the infected blind as their eyes more or less literally melted out of their sockets.
I think that's how it went, but I read this several decades ago and may even be confusing it with other books.