Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region into what the United Nations has called “something resembling a massive internment camp” for the minority population there.18 It has allowed researchers to produce the world’s first genetically edited human babies.19 It condones genetic experimentation on animals, including non-human primates, that is far more restricted in the United States. It is not a significant moral leap to imagine China genetically engineering superhumans who are optimized for certain military tasks or developing precision biological warfare agents that, like designer drugs in reverse,
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