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#PRC: Beijing Building DNA Database in China and in the USA: to what end? Josh Rogin, Washington Post

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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#PRC: Beijing Building DNA Database in China and in the USA: to what end? Josh Rogin, Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/12/biden-xi-dna-collection-biometrics-abuses


1919 Beijing

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This is CBS I in the world. I'm John Bachelor a database a DNA database. What can go wrong? I learned from Josh Rogin at the Washington Post that in the recent Tetitat conversation between the President of the United States and the General Secretary of the People's Republic of China, Mr. Shijen-Ping,

1:00.0

there were promises made about how China would interrupt, intervene in the fentanyl supply chain that is poisoning hundreds of thousands of Americans in damaging families for generations.

1:13.4

And in exchange for that promise from the PRC, the President of the United States conceded

1:20.9

that there will not be sanctions on companies associated with a DNA

1:25.8

database. One in particular BGI I learned from Josh. Now what is a DNA

1:31.5

database? What can go wrong? Why is this dangerous?

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A very good evening to you. What does a DNA database do?

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How does it empower a bad actor?

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Good evening to you. Well good evening John. You're exactly right that

1:46.5

the price that the Chinese president extracted from President Biden in

1:51.4

exchange for these promises to cut down on fentanyl precursor

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