{"id":87479,"date":"2019-02-23T13:49:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T08:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2019-02-23T13:49:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T08:19:07","slug":"china-uses-dna-to-track-its-people-with-us-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-uses-dna-to-track-its-people-with-us-help\/","title":{"rendered":"China uses DNA to track its people, with US help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Thermo Fisher, a Massachusetts (USA) company has\nsaid that it would no longer sell its equipment in Xinjiang Uyghur&nbsp;Autonomous&nbsp;Region-\nthe region where China had been conducting \u201cPhysicals for All\u201d project. The\nproject envisages collection of DNA samples, iris scans, and blood types of all\nresidents in the region between the ages of 12 to 65. According to human right\ngroups and Uighur Activists, China has been preparing a DNA database for surveillance\nagainst Uighurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in the region.\n<\/li><li>Xinjiang is an administrative region in north-western\nChina. The region borders eight countries &#8211; Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan,\nKyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The population in\nXinjiang is predominantly Uighurs. Uighurs are ethnically Turkic Muslims. <\/li><li>In response to large-scale ethnic rioting and attacks\nin Xinjiang since 2009, China has enhanced security in the region to combat terrorism,\nextremism and separatism.<\/li><li>China has been accused of detaining Uighur\nMuslims and other Muslim groups in the western Xinjiang region. However, China\nhas denied there are internment camps but advocated that people in Xinjiang are\nreceiving &#8220;vocational training&#8221; in \u201cre-education camps\u201d. <\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thermo Fisher, a Massachusetts (USA) company has said that it would no longer sell its equipment in Xinjiang Uyghur&nbsp;Autonomous&nbsp;Region- the region where China had been conducting \u201cPhysicals for All\u201d project. The project envisages collection of DNA samples, iris scans, and blood types of all residents in the region between the ages of 12 to 65.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-uses-dna-to-track-its-people-with-us-help\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China uses DNA to track its people, with US help<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[2353,5210],"class_list":["post-87479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","tag-china","tag-uighur-muslims","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704707408},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}