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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "well I mean the issue in East Asia is that there isn't as much respect for human dignity and human rights as there is..."
Jiang argues that East Asia's biotechnology edge is not primarily cultural comfort with biotech but weaker protection for human dignity and human rights than he believes exists in the West.
Jiang argues that Chinese science is a colony of Western science, meaning that Western institutions supply the expertise, technology, and supervisory structure while China functions as the permissive site where ethically constrained research can be carried out.
Jiang claims the genetically modified twins case exemplifies this arrangement because the Chinese researcher was, in Jiang's telling, working under a Stanford mentor and using expertise that Americans could not legally deploy at home.
Jiang argues that American actors outsource legally risky or ethically controversial work to China in the same way they outsource environmentally destructive rare-earth extraction: they avoid doing it in their own backyard while still benefiting from it.
Jiang says biotechnology could affect history, but he doubts contemporary societies can use transformative biological innovations well because bureaucracy and entrenched interests are organized to preserve the status quo.
"well I mean the issue in East Asia is that there isn't as much respect for human dignity and human rights as there is..."
"scientists in America because Americans can't do this legally in the United States so they um outsource it to China it's the same dynamic..."
"mines they're not willing to do it in their backyard but they are willing to sponsor it"
"in China well they can't do it because they'll be sued up the ass yeah yeah"
"that people aren't quite expecting um i think it's possible but um i but my intuition tells me that society has become so ossified..."
"...kind of related topic um China is pushing the limits of biotechnology and notably they produced the first genetically modified humans not that long..."
"...an odd question for you but uh how do you see biotechnology changing the course of history because i've done a lot of research..."
"...often much bigger and i'm even discounting like you know new biotechnology and bioweapons here just boring old diseases that have been around for..."
The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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