The new arms include biological weapons designed to induce sleep or sleep-related disturbances in enemy troops. The goal is to impair cognition and alertness.
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will seek cognitive manipulation and control of enemies.
Other weapons it is working on include “genetic drugs” — pharmaceuticals designed to modify the genetic and physiological makeup of people and seek to impact cognitive, emotional, and behavioral traits.
Source? A think tank said so.
What a grift
Wish I could get paid to make up bullshit China is doing
"Oh yeah, they're building a giant memorial to Mao that hypnotizes anyone who gazes upon it for longer than 5 seconds"
Gonna make a thinktank, as a bit.
What is a thinktank anyway? They're websites that call themselves thinktanks that "publish" papers they make the fuck up every now and then.
They're totally bullshit organisations invented for the purposes of creating deniability for the state that something came from a third party and not from themselves. Despite the fact that states are funding the thinktanks they're "independent".
That’s not fair. They’re also an important failson/daughter jobs programme
It's also a way to introduce ideas to the public with an air of credibility. News corpos can pick up the story and provide sources, without having to say