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Can I read Made in China : Wuhan, Covid and the Quest for Biotech Supremacy on EtoBox?
Made in China : Wuhan, Covid and the Quest for Biotech Supremacy by Jasper Becker is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Made in China : Wuhan, Covid and the Quest for Biotech Supremacy about?
What might COVID-19 mean for, and reveal about, China's place in the world? The coronavirus pandemic started in Wuhan, home to the leading lab studying the SARS virus and bats. Was that pure coincidence? This book explores what we know, and still don't know, about the origins of COVID-19, and how it was handled in China. We may never get all the answers, but much is already clear: China's record as the origin of earlier pandemics, and its struggle to bring contagious diseases under control; its history as both a victim of biological warfare and a developer of deadly bioweapons. When Covid broke out, Wuhan was building science parks to realise Beijing's ambitions in biotech research. Whoever achieves global leadership of the gene-editing industry stands to harvest great power and wealth. China has already challenged Western technological supremacy with 5G and in other industries. Yet this tiny, invisible virus has cruelly exposed a critical flaw in the Chinese political system: obsessive secrecy. The West wanted to trust the PRC, hoping that, as it prospered, it would become an open society. Made in China reveals how Beijing's leaders have betrayed that trust.
Who reads Made in China : Wuhan, Covid and the Quest for Biotech Supremacy?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Jasper Becker
- Publisher
- Hurst & Company Distributed in the United States Canada ans Latin America by Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781787384675
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Technology, Medical
