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PREVIEW: From a conversation with Josh Rogin of the Washington Post re the #PRC building a DNA database that includes American citizens without permission or even awareness of.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Arts, News, Society & Culture, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PREVIEW: From a conversation with Josh Rogin of the Washington Post re the #PRC building a DNA database that includes American citizens without permission or even awareness of.

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0:00.0

Sure, this is Peloton. This is a 15 minute low impact ride, but so is this.

0:07.2

We're here together for a 10 minute empathy meditation.

0:10.5

And even this, we get hit in with a 20 minute hip-hop shadow boxes session.

0:16.7

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0:17.7

What more could you ask for?

0:18.7

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0:23.9

This is Peloton. Internet Connection and Peloton all acts as membership required.

0:28.6

C1 Peloton. UK.

0:30.3

Conversation with Josh Roggen, global opinions of the Washington Post, about I was unaware that the Chinese are compiling a DNA database of their own people.

0:40.0

Why, it's sinister, something about identifying family members of dissenters or

0:46.2

troublemakers a vast reach but at the same time we can only guess the future

0:51.6

manipulating DNA what are all the science fiction books

0:56.6

are about when you get into making humans.

1:00.4

And then I learned from Josh that the database that the Chinese are compiling is not limited

1:06.1

just to mainland China or sovereign China.

1:10.4

Also there's a Chinese company, BGI in this country,

1:13.2

that makes available DNA testing kits

1:16.0

so you can find out about where your genes came from.

1:20.1

That's a Chinese company.

1:21.8

What are we going to do about it? Josh asks, and he has some recommendations, some comments about Congress, but still, a DNA database of American citizens?

1:32.0

Why, except for unknowns? Here's Josh.

1:37.0

Right, so if listeners are with us so far that there's this threat of Chinese biotechnological research being abused for their military purposes,

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