{"id":88,"date":"2023-05-21T13:03:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T17:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/?p=88"},"modified":"2023-05-21T13:03:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T17:03:46","slug":"rfa-blinken-remarks-on-mass-dna-collection-in-tibet-xinjiang-spark-backlash-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/rfa-blinken-remarks-on-mass-dna-collection-in-tibet-xinjiang-spark-backlash-from-china\/","title":{"rendered":"RFA: Blinken remarks on mass DNA collection in Tibet, Xinjiang spark backlash from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www-rfa-org.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/tibet\/dna-collection-05112023155723.html\/ampRFA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/blinken1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/blinken1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/blinken1.jpg 622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has expressed concern over the collection of DNA from Tibetans and Uyghurs by Chinese authorities, sparking a vehement reply from Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a Freedom House awards event in Washington on Tuesday, Blinken said access to human genomic data opens up more human rights concerns because advances in biotechnology have enabled genomic surveillance based on DNA, potentially facilitating rights abuses. He is the senior-most U.S. official to raise the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen some of those, for example, committed by the People\u2019s Republic of China against Uyghurs and other minorities in Xinjiang,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re also concerned by reports of the spread of mass DNA collection to Tibet as an additional form of control and surveillance over the Tibetan population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/www-rfa-org.cdn.ampproject.org\/c\/s\/www.rfa.org\/english\/news\/tibet\/dna-collection-05112023155723.html\/ampRFA\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has expressed concern over the collection of DNA from Tibetans and Uyghurs by Chinese authorities, sparking a vehement reply from Beijing. Speaking at a Freedom House awards event in Washington on Tuesday, Blinken said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/rfa-blinken-remarks-on-mass-dna-collection-in-tibet-xinjiang-spark-backlash-from-china\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eastern-turkestan","category-tibet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomsherald.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}