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BGI Genomics—the Chinese Communist Party-linked genomics firm flagged by U.S. officials as “mining” the DNA of Americans—has collaborated extensively with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The National Pulse can reveal.

The company has recently come under fire following a 60 Minutes exposé on the company’s use of COVID-19 tests to “collect, store and exploit biometric information” on American citizens, according to former U.S. intelligence officials. What’s more, a recent Reuters article linked the firm to the Chinese Communist Party’s military.

In addition to the Obama administration enabling the firm to gain a foothold in the U.S., the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation played a critical role in BGI’s American expansion.

In September of 2012, the Microsoft founder’s foundation signed a “Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form a collaboration on global health and agricultural development with the goal of achieving common objectives in health and agricultural development.”

There are no limits to Chinese military exploitation of DNA when they possess a large enough sample. Covid-19 testing has been a boon for their efforts and there is no way to tell how many samples they’ve been able to collect. All of this sounds quite nefarious, but it’s actually the Bill Gates connection that is more concerning.



According to the Financial Times, Bill Gates had shown interest as far back as 2010, when he visited the BGI headquarters in Shenzhen China. “As they toured the BGI headquarters, the two men were stunned by the ambition of the scientists working at the biotech company. Inside, more than 150 state of the art genetic sequencing machines were analysing the equivalent of thousands of human genomes a day. The company is working towards a goal of building a huge library based on the DNA of many millions of people.”

At the end of 2012, The New York Times wrote about how the Obama administration allowed BGI-Shenzhen to acquire Complete Genomics of Mountain View, California. It needed to be approved by the federal committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. Apparently, it did. The governing body reviews national security implications in situations like this and the Obama administration saw no problem. Despite prominent concerns about allowing China access to DNA sequencing technology.

Fast forward to October/November 2020 and these banned COVID kits came under scrutiny for being linked to BGI.

According to AP: “U.S. diplomats and security officials privately warned the state of Nevada not to use Chinese-made coronavirus test kits donated by the United Arab Emirates over concerns about patient privacy, test accuracy and Chinese government involvement, documents obtained by The Associated Press show.”

The Associated Press claimed U.S. intelligence officials warned China could exploit samples to discover someone’s medical history, genetic traits, and illnesses.

At the end of January 2021 both Reuters and 60 Minutes on CBS unraveled more controversy with regards to China’s BGI group. Reuters found publicly available documents linking BGI to the Chinese military and research on “mass testing for respiratory pathogens to brain science.”