The Era of Biotechnology, Mass Surveillance, and Government Control
AP Photo/Taimy Alvarez The world is arguably experiencing the first biowar in history. This is not to say that any country deliberately manufactured covid or released bioweapons, but as recent reporting from the New York Times shows, the Chinese government tried to exploit it politically, perhaps calculating that a pandemic would hurt more complex economies than simpler ones. A great power competition has crossed over into the biology of the planet. No ‘Negative’ News: How China Censored the Coronavirus Thousands of internal directives and reports reveal how Chinese officials stage-manage...