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(NewsNation) — China's experimentation with creating supersoldiers is simply a "disturbing" reality, according to a erstwhile elder quality serviceman successful the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Nicholas Eftimiades joined "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" pursuing comments from Sen. Mark Warner connected China trying to make enhanced soldiers, a signifier "right retired of a subject fabrication film."
"They've been exploring this conception for a while," Eftimiades told NewsNation. "Can they modify quality behavior, quality physiology, to create, if you will, a much superior individual, physically arsenic good arsenic mentally?"
Eftimiades added that small is known astir what China's perfect specimen for conflict looks similar beyond probe it stated is promising, specified arsenic cistron splicing and altering a person's familial background.
"Other nations person explored successful this country implicit decades. So it's not the newest happening successful the world, but the much disturbing portion [is] we don't cognize precisely however overmuch effort they're putting successful towards it," helium said.
"We don't cognize immoderate of the accomplishments they've had towards it. We bash know, which is disturbing, is that it's nether the People's Liberation Army."
During the inaugural Hill Nation Summit, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem remarked that China tin unopen down the electrical grid oregon h2o systems successful the United States. It follows a report from The Washington Post that said Chinese cyberattacks doubled successful 2024 connected the erstwhile year.
Eftimiades says the U.S. indispensable get connected the offensive.
"Next clip we observe a cyberhack from China, we footwear immoderate of their state-owned enterprises, multibillion-dollar state-owned enterprises, disconnected the banal speech and say, 'You cognize what, nary much concern from the United States period," helium said.
"And we coordinate that with our allies arsenic well. So determination is immoderate outgo to China, due to the fact that arsenic of close now, there's not."
