Biohacked: China's Race to Control Life

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When COVID-19 erupted from Wuhan, China under mysterious circumstances, the Communist Party of China covered up its existence for as long as possible. It is now apparent that there is more to COVID than what the authorities wish for us to know.Biohacked: Chinas Race to Control Lifedetails the decades-long pursuit by the Chinese Communists to dominate the biotechnology industryto control the very building blocks of life on Earthto further their political control at home and their supremacy abroad.

More appalling than the egregious cover-up that Chinas rulers engaged in with COVID-19 is the fact that Western scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and research labs have contributed to Chinas rapid (and dangerous) growth in the biotech industryso much so that China, not the United States, may become the seat of the biotechnology industry. The Chinese leadership believes that biotechnology is a critical industry for the Communist Party to achieve its goal of becoming the worlds dominant superpower by 2049. In Chinas biotech sector, truly macabre practices are being developed, from ambitious cloning programs to the creation of potential pathogens that Chinas military plans to use in specific genetic attacks against Beijings growing list of political enemies.

To stop the threat, author Brandon J. Weichert proposes the worlds nations create a comprehensive set of treaties for regulating biotechnology research and development. Further, Weichert calls for Washington to slow the transfer of advanced biotechnology knowledge and funding from the United States to China using means like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the Committee on ForeignInvestmentin the United States (CFIUS).

Unless an all-of-government (and society) approach is taken to curbing irresponsible biotech development in China, then anotherdeadlierCOVID-19-like pandemic could be at hand.

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Two years after the outbreak of COVID-19, the world and the United States are only now understanding fully its origins and the motivations of the nationCommunist Chinafrom whence it was unleashed. InBiohacked, Brandon J. Weichert does a brilliant job of explaining the mindset of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese scientific community that appears unconstrained when it comes to the application of modern science to the war the CCP is waging against the world and its own people.Biohackedis a serious contribution to the scholarship that will be necessary if Americans are to remain a free people.

Brian T. Kennedy, president of The American Strategy Group and chairman of The Committee on the Present Danger: China

Millions killed, countries crippled, the world turned upside down. Its the greatest crime of this century: the engineering of a virus in a Chinese lab and the spread of the pathogen to every corner of the planet. And more Chinese diseases are coming our way. InBiohacked: Chinas Race to Control Life, Brandon Weichert writes with authority, precision, and clarity about the most important development of our times.

Gordon G. Chang, author ofThe Coming Collapse of ChinaandThe Great U.S.China Tech War

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Brandon J. Weichert is a geopolitical analyst and author ofWinning Space: How America Remains a SuperpowerandThe Shadow War: Iran's Quest for Supremacy. Weichert is an educator, who travels the country lecturing leaders in the US military, academia, and business communities on the current trends in geopolitics and high-technology research and development. He has been described as a panic-and-anxiety inducing scholar who lives by Dr. Herman Kahns mantra that Im against fashionable thinking. Weichert is a prolific writer who is a contributing editor toAmerican Greatness,The Asia Times, andThe Washington Times. He is a former Congressional staffer who holds an MA in Statecraft & National Security Affairs from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C., and he manages The Weichert Report: World News Done Right. He splits his time between sunny Southwest Florida and bucolic Northern Virginia. Weichert can be followed via Twitter @WeTheBrandon.