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‘Leapfrogging ahead’: ‘Terrifying’ proof China has gone rogue

Technology is capable of some horrific things – but while Western scientists have ethics to answer to, China is forging ahead, with “terrifying” results.


Jamie Seidel
news.com.au
January 5, 20201:07pm

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China's President Xi Jinping has bold ambitions and an iron grip on his country. Picture: Pavel Golovkin / POOL / AFP Source:AFP


China’s Chairman Xi Jinping has gone rogue. His agents have infiltrated the US and Australia. He’s unashamedly engineering his own people. His scientists are building clones and killer AI. What next?

Things are not going how Mr Xi anticipated. He got his spectacular 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic parade through central Beijing. But his international standing is in free fall.

He wants to prove he’s been making China great again.

He wants to show he can reshape the world.

He wants to push the US to the sidelines.

And he won’t budge an inch on the multitude of crises afflicting his authoritarian rule.

“Our determination and resolve,” China’s top diplomat Yang Jiechi declared, “are as firm as iron when it comes to defending our national interests and dignity on issues about Taiwan, maritime affairs, Xinjian, Tibet, Hong Kong as well as trade rifts. No one should expect China to swallow the bitter fruit that would damage our own interests.”

But Mr Xi’s tight grip is causing cracks to appear in China’s society.

Its demographic is ageing, rapidly. Its now-defunct one-child policy also produced a massive surplus of males – many of whom are now unable to find wives.

There’s drought. There’s a plague killing off its pigs. There’s overwhelming pollution.

But any sign of dissent is immediately crushed through China’s all-encompassing surveillance state.

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