How China Is Out-Innovating the West

How China is out-innovating the West

The world received a jolt in 2018 – and it wasn’t from a Silicon Valley whiz or a lab at MIT. It came from Shenzhen, China, where a lanky, unassuming biochemist named He Jiankui did the unthinkable. Using the newly discovered CRISPR-Cas9 toolkit, and asking no one’s permission, He edited the genes of Lulu and Nana, twin baby girls, so that both were born immune to HIV. The scientific establishment gasped, jaws dropped and the moralists clutched …

How China Is Quietly Outsmarting the West » The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

There is something unsettling about modern silence. The hum of a solar panel. The blink of a router. The quiet whirr of an inverter behind a barn. These things do not shout. They wait. And increasingly, they listen. Even Canada has acknowledged the presence of secret Chinese police stations masquerading as outreach centers. This month, two reports — one from Reuters, the other from The Times (U.S.) — confirmed what security analysts long feared …