China has blown the whistle on the potential dangers of what it calls \"genetic weapons\" that could prove to be an incredibly potent weapon of mass destruction, the Global Times reports. On Monday, October 20, 2023, the Chinese Ministry of State Security released a statement on WeChat warning that a \"certain\" foreign non-governmental organization (NGO) had recruited Chinese \"volunteers\" to collect biodiversity distribution data under the guise of biological species research to steal China's species data. <\/p>\n
The ministry did not name the countries in question, nor did it offer evidence to support the claim. While not a new claim, the existence of such weapons has long been dismissed by the mainstream scientific community as a \"conspiracy theory.\" In a February 2020 report, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports, the Council on Strategic Risks stated that bioweapons as a deterrent were \"irrelevant\" because no country was safe from the effects of a pandemic. <\/p>\n
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