REVEALED: China’s 2021 Five Year Plan Announced – Biotechnology and Information Technology Warfare Dominance
Guest post By Lawrence Sellin and Anna Chen
China’s 2021 14th Five Year Plan: Biotechnology-Information Technology Warfare Dominance
China is preparing for biological warfare and is mobilizing all its military and civilian resources in that effort.
The recently translated Chinese Communist Party’s 2021 14th Five-year Plan National Key Research and Development Program has a subsection “Research on pathogenesis and epidemic prevention technology system,” which states a goal to:
Establish a real-time information analysis and early warning mechanism based on the pathogen database to be able to analyze the variation and evolution of known epidemic pathogens in peacetime, and to be able to respond quickly to emergent pathogens and analyze the variation and evolution of pathogens in wartime.”
The program will identify “8-10 pathogens” and “establish a combination of civilian and combat pathogen data monitoring and analysis application system.”
The 14th Five Year Plan goals are the culmination and extension of the 2016 13th Five-Year Plan’s Science and Technology Military-Civilian Fusion Program,
