US Commerce Dept says China has brain-control weaponry
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/12/17/the_department_of_commerce_said/
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As usual, the newly listed organisations earned their place on the grounds their activities represent a threat to national security. Less usually, this batch sees plenty barred for bodgy biotech.
Among the [1]named organisations [PDF] is China's Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS), plus eleven of its research institutes, "based on the body of information that AMMS and its eleven research institutes use biotechnology processes to support Chinese military end uses and end users, to include purported brain-control weaponry."
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"This activity is contrary to US national security and foreign policy interests" said the Department's final rule.
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The nature of the mental menaces is not known.
A senior official told [5]The Financial Times that China was using emerging biotechnologies to try to develop future military applications – including "gene editing, human performance enhancement [and] brain machine interfaces".
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A year ago, the (now former) US Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, penned an [7]op-ed for the Wall Street Journal claiming that China had conducted "human testing" on members of the People's Liberation Army in hope of developing soldiers with "biologically enhanced capabilities" – in other words, genetically engineered super soldiers.
[8]China lists 100 topics citizens can't include in online vids
[9]As CISA tells US govt agencies to squash Log4j bug by Dec 24, fingers start pointing at China, Iran, others
[10]Korean semiconductor outfit Magnachip no longer merging with Chinese private equity Wise Road Capital
Of course, Trump appointee Ratcliffe was routinely criticised for being underqualified and politicizing the position he held, and was also a [11]known conspiracy theorist .
However, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been working to advance military-research projects in the area of brain science, and hasn't always been shy about it.
In 2018, PLA neuroscientists published a [12]review detailing ways neuroscience could influence future warfare – for example by using brain-machine interface technology to enhance a soldier's capabilities, as well as through sound, light, electricity or even transcranial magnetic stimulation, or of course drugs. The paper also discusses interfering negatively with the heads of enemy targets.
US secretary of commerce Gina M. Raimondo weighed in on the entity list additions in a [13]canned statement:
The scientific pursuit of biotechnology and medical innovation can save lives. Unfortunately, the PRC is choosing to use these technologies to pursue control over its people and its repression of members of ethnic and religious minority groups. We cannot allow US commodities, technologies, and software that support medical science and biotechnical innovation to be diverted toward uses contrary to US national security.
Raimondo then namechecked both PRC and Iran as countries the US stands strongly against as they "turn tools that can help humanity prosper into implements that threaten global security and stability".
The US Commerce Department said its Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is also taking action against entities diverting or attempting to divert US items to Iran's military programs.
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Steven Okun, Senior Advisor at international strategic advisory firm McLarty Associates, told The Register : "These actions further highlight the US government's evolving view that doing business in China increasingly can conflict with US national security and foreign policy interests, and business leaders need to plan for further prohibitions on US corporate engagement and investment in China and Chinese entities, especially when it comes to technology."
The entity list additions landed on the same day the USA [15]barred local investors from sinking their cash into Chinese drone-maker DJI, claiming the company is part of the "Chinese military-industrial complex" and an active participant in the suppression of China's minority Uyghur population. ®
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[1] https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2021-27406.pdf
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[7] https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-is-national-security-threat-no-1-11607019599
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/17/china_lists_100_topics_citizens/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/15/log4j_latest_cisa/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/15/magnachip_wise_road_merger_dead/
[11] https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-intel-pick-john-ratcliffe-started-theory-of-fbi-anti-trump-secret-society
[12] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1008127517303188?via%3Dihub
[13] https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2021/12/commerce-acts-deter-misuse-biotechnology-other-us-technologies-peoples
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[15] https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/17/usa_bars_investment_in_eight_chinese_tech_companies/
[16] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: Aren’t most weapons brain controlled…
"Brain-controlled" does not describe me in the morning until sometime after my third coffee
Re: Aren’t most weapons brain controlled…
I read a sort sci-fi years ago (I expect from my great collection of 'Pan book[s] of horror stories' which, alas, have been lost in the mists of time) in which all the top military bods in the USA gathered together all their top scientists for a secret meeting.
They showed them a grainy B&W cine film smuggled out of the USSR showing the Russians using and flying an anti-gravity machine. They gave the scientists 6 months to build one.
The scientists, now convinced such a contraption is possible, managed to build such a machine after a lot of head scratching, leaps of faith and downright brilliant engineering after 5 months.
At the wash-up meeting, the top bods were delighted and went around all slapping themselves on the back - they then revealed to the scientists that the cine film was FAKE and no such machine ever existed, but NOW the USA had one up on the dreaded Ruskies!
So, who knows what the USA propaganda machine is up to...
Only in the minds of the MIC can you leap from "research" to "using it to control" people.
I have absolutely NO doubt that every single major nation in the world is engaged in similar brain research.
Oh, look, Chicken Little, the sky isn't falling!!! *LMAO*
"I have absolutely NO doubt that every single major nation in the world is engaged in similar brain research." Probably, but the way it is done is important too. But somehow, and this is probably prejudice, i feel that the Chinese government is a little bit easier on the ethical issues than most western powers.
Actually remote mind control is a possible nowadays thanks to social media. For example
"How Unwitting Americans Encountered Russian Operatives" [NYT Feb. 18, 2018], documents some cases where Russians tried to organized both demonstrations and counter demonstrations. Some attempts were successful, others not.
I suppose you could say that was only tapping into pre existing trends - or even needs. Or you could say it was a form a fraud, which is nothing new. However, it is a also form of hybrid warfare, and it is using psychological techniques to dial up passions which Russia sees as a way to inflict damage. I don't think it really made more than an alpha of difference to what is already going with social media, but it is remarkable because it can be done via social media.
As this article concern China, It's also worth mentioning that it's not something that China does, only Russia. Perhaps it is because Russia and the US have a lot more in common psychologically speaking.
When do we get a new Firefox movie?
In plain sight
> developing "mind control weapons"
I have heard is said that is what Facebook et. al are.
China has brain-control weaponry, says US Commerce Dept.
Tiktok?
Not as effective as the American one, of course.
"purported brain-control weaponry"
Ah, that ol' chestnut.
A pic of a girl* in skimpy lingerie is brain control enough for me.
* - of legal age, obviously
They've got brain control and magical lasers and... and... and...
The sheer amount of wild conjecture that the US Defence industry will use to desperately claw for more cash from the government is extraordinary.
Of course the Chinese do have a massive and growing technological advantage which will result in an effective monopole in the next century, but that's because they're educating their engineers and scientists without burdening them with a lifetime's debt. America is so busy spending that money on spurious military projects and invading places there's no chance of them catching up on that front.
"Nudge"
Not really a technology, but a psyops framework that is being widely used by the government on the UK population.
Nudge only works if people are being unaware that they are being subjected to it.
Aren’t most weapons brain controlled…
Every morning I use my brain-controlled cutlery, and drink from my brain-controlled mug. Also ‘noun verb subject’ should be written ‘noun-verb subject’. Gotta love the ‘Men Who Stare At Goats’ vibe - our enemies are doing x, we must have funding to develop x.