Top secret research lab reportedly utilizing Chinese military machinery.
In New Mexico, the atomic bomb was constructed at Los Alamos.
The House Oversight Committee is aware that a Chinese military-operated machine is being used at the nation's most secretive government laboratories.
A committee spokeswoman informed Planet Chronicle Digital that they are aware of the presence of a BGI machine at Los Alamos.
In rural New Mexico, Los Alamos is a highly classified laboratory known for producing the atomic bomb during the Manhattan Project in 1943.
The Biosecure Act, which was passed by the House on Monday, will prohibit U.S. taxpayer dollars from funding biotech companies owned, operated, or controlled by China or other foreign adversaries, as noted by the spokeswoman.
The Senate Homeland Security Committee received the bill, but it's uncertain if and when the Senate will consider it.
The Oversight Committee did not reveal if they would probe the machinery linked to BGI.
The State Development and Investment Corp., China's largest state investment vehicle, has invested significantly in BGI Group, which operates a large gene databank in China and has DNA sequencing contracts with health firms and universities globally.
The National Security Commission on AI claimed that BGI could be unknowingly acting as a global database collector for the Chinese government, providing China with a larger pool of diverse human genome samples and access to sensitive personal information about important individuals worldwide.
Over the past two years, BGI has established several new subsidiaries in the U.S. to avoid closer examination.
The Pentagon designated BGI as a "Chinese Military Company" operating in the U.S. and added two of its subsidiaries to a trade blacklist due to allegations they conducted genetic analysis and surveillance activities for Beijing. The Department of Commerce stated that this information has been used to oppress ethnic minorities in China.
In 2021, BGI developed a neonatal genetic test with the CCP, which enabled it to gather data on population traits from millions of women for research purposes, according to a Reuters report.
In 2022, Strider Technologies discovered that China had been conducting a decades-long campaign to recruit allied researchers from Los Alamos.
At least 162 scientists who worked at the nuclear research lab later returned and collaborated with the Chinese government between 1987 and 2021.
Many of the 15 permanent staff members had high levels of security clearances.
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