EDITORIAL: China’s ‘super soldier’ researchThe early 1990s Hollywood science fiction blockbuster Universal Soldier featured part-cyborg, part-genetically enhanced “super soldiers.” Three decades later, China appears to be taking its first step toward making biologically enhanced troops a reality. US Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe made the claim in an opinion piece, titled “China is national security threat No. He was subsequently fined and sentenced to three years in jail for breaching China’s ban on genetic experiments on humans. Like France, the US approach appears to be guided by ethical concerns, including the voluntary and reversible nature of human augmentation technologies. Taiwan’s military and intelligence community must closely monitor Chinese research into gene editing and other biologically enhanced capabilities, and consider developing a robust ethical framework to allow for comparable Taiwanese research.

Source: Taipei Times December 10, 2020 16:06 UTC