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.

    • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      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"

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        10 months ago

        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".

        • nohaybanda [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          That’s not fair. They’re also an important failson/daughter jobs programme

        • hexthismess [he/him, comrade/them]
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          10 months ago

          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 made-it-the-fuck-up

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      (a) Countering Chinese influence fund. —There is authorized to be appropriated $300,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025 for the Countering Chinese Influence Fund to counter the malign influence of the Chinese Communist Party globally. Amounts appropriated pursuant to this authorization are authorized to remain available until expended and shall supplement, not supplant, amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated to counter such influence.

      getting that sweet sweet cash

      • Clever_Clover [she/her]
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        10 months ago

        Gonna start calling myself a thinktank and writing transhumanist sci-fi seeseepee fan fiction