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China accused the United States on Wednesday of developing race-specific bioweapons to target citizens.
Speaking with reporters, Wang Wenbin, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry slammed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken for saying a day earlier that China is collecting human genomic data against ethnic minorities in Xinjiang and Tibet as an additional form of control and surveillance.
The ruling Chinese Communist Party has targeted Xinjiang’s Turkic-speaking Uyghur population, ethnic minorities such as the Tibetans, and religious believers who remain outside state control, for transformation through “re-education.”
Blinken said Tuesday the U.S. is “concerned” by reports of the spread of mass DNA collection to Tibet as an additional form of control and surveillance over the Tibetan population.