China’s military is developing advanced psychological warfare and brain-influencing weapons as part of a new warfighting strategy, according to a think tank report on People’s Liberation Army cognitive warfare.

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.

  • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    His thesis was that Red China and the Soviet Union could control the minds of their respective citizenry

    It's true--even at the dissolution of the USSR, a whopping 70% of its citizenry wanted it to stay together

    thankfully Pizza Hut got involved and Russia's better for it now