Oxford & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences

 

The Oxford backroom Boys, Jeremy 2nd from left, back (photo courtesy of CAMS) 

(note: Andrew McMichael, 2nd back-right - you're coming onto the radar!)

 

The CAMS (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences)/ Oxford collaboration is a vehicle of power-sharing. Gao and Farrar were integral in setting it up - they currently direct its operations. 

 

Personnel from CCP-controlled institutions have been infiltrating western academic institutions - that were oh-too-eager to be infiltrated - for decades. That’s well-documented. Oxford accepted a $700 mil (!) donation from Tencent, owner of WeChat. Tencent is routinely used by the CCP to hunt down anyone expressing dissent in China.

 

Meanwhile back at the lab, Oxford/Tencent AI researcher Li Shen, was integral in the: establishment of vast facial recognition databases enabling people to be identified even if spotted in differing poses, and as they age.

 

Then there’s Congenica, a Wellcome genomic research partner, which is funded by/collaborates with BGI. (Note: China has numerous laws requiring or authorizing access to private-sector data by the central government.)

 

Then there’s DNAnexus - the name tells you the story - jointly funded by Wellcome and WuXi PharmaTech - it’s a data-base for gathered-DNA. 

 

WuXi PharmaTech: (This) $15 million investment and alliance puts WuXi NextCODE's unrivalled genome analytics on DNAnexus's cloud platform, seamlessly linked to WuXi PharmaTech's China platform .. (b)ringing cloud-based genomics to China and Chinese genomics to the world.

 

Great.

 

CAMS/Oxford genomics dream is not only about money - it’s an executive power collaboration - to achieve genomics supremacy. Master of the Universe level.

 

CAMS/Oxford: The CAMS-Oxford International Centre for Translational Immunology is a joint venture between the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS), China Centre for Disease Control (China CDC), Beijing's You'an Hospital (You'an), the University of Oxford's Human Immunology Unit (HIU), and the Nuffield Department of Medicine (NDM).

(Founded in April 2013, one of the) three main themes underpin(ing) our human immunology research programmes (is):

i) analysis of the interplay between adaptive and innate immune responses to optimize vaccination strategies

Before Covid i would’ve read that - thought - oh - that sounds good. 

Now it fills me with unease.

CAMS/Oxford: These .. objectives will be underpinned (the underpin of the underpinings) by the development of a joint translational programme, to carry out hypothesis driven clinical trials.

First time i read translational program i wasn’t sure what it meant. That was dumb - coz it’s obvious. It translates scientists’  lab work - to: field operations. 

Especially in Xinjiang - and Africa. To save them.

Geroge Gao: Thus, Africa is undoubtedly one of the main public health battlefields for China in the future. .. In this way, cross-border spread of the diseases and risk factors can be prevented, reducing the risk for Chinese people. 

Xinjiang being the other main public health battlefield where risk factors can be prevented.

 

Translation seems to be the special skill-set of George & Jeremy. They come as a team. The risk-takers - who promise to - reduce risk. 

 

In the One Health thought-universe, which, by definition, excludes/punishes Different Thought matrices (such as Taiwan’s), George & Jeremy are the translational gatekeepers. You wanna get your project up? - gotta go through those two. If George & Jeremy want a narrative up - they know exactly who to call/fund.

 

Still, it takes a village. In this case the Oxford establishment - which is a damn-decent village if you live there.

 

CAMS/Oxford: The centre is founded on several long-standing collaborative relationships initiated by Prof Tao Dong (Oxford) .. with support from .. Professor Sir Andrew McMichael and Professor Vincenzo Cerudolo.

(Few more names for the suss file. Especially Sir Crops-sup-a-lot) 

Significant contributions to .. programmatic support have been provided by many sponsors including the National Science Foundation China (NSFC), the Chinese Ministry for Science and Technology, and You'an Hospital. 

The first two being powerful CCP-controlled functionaries.

In April 2013 Professor Hamilton (Oxford) visited Beijing to sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing the CTI with Professor Cao Xuetao - President of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. 

On behalf of the University of Oxford, Mr Darren Nash - Associate Head of the Nuffield Department of Medicine (Academic Support and Finance), also signed an MOU. 

So a whole bunch of Oxford power elites playing footsie with the CCP.

Tried searching the details of those MOU’s - they don’t appear to be public. We can assume they were typical of other CCP MOU’s such as this one signed by Dan Andrews. It’s all about:

cooperation for mutual benefits in a new era with a common future to jointly combat global challenges (such as the Falun Gong)

Though the Oxford/CAMS nexus has special focus on:

 

interdisciplinary research in bio-medical sciences, including big-data application in biomedical research, bioinformatics .. and so on.

Professor Julian Knight (Oxford/CAMS): The overall aim of my research programme is to understand the genetic basis of susceptibility to common infectious, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases.

 

So it’s about genetics/AI/big-data sharing with a totalitarian surveillance-state - and so on…

Why are you doing that?

Reuters: China ..is likely to dominate many of the key emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, synthetic biology and genetics within a decade or so, according to Western intelligence assessments.

So getting with the strength? But aren’t we on different sides? This is sensitive technology.

Nicolas Chaillan, Pentagon's chief software officer, recently resigned in protest: We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years. Right now, it’s already a done deal; it is already over in my opinion. 

Especially if Oxford is helping China. If you can’t beat ‘em ….

CAMS/Oxford: With the institute’s talent cultivation and acquisition model, scientists will be able to have positions (in China) and they could enjoy the resources provided by both Oxford and CAMS. (my brackets)

 

China-UK Life Science and Medicine Summit - Farrar front 2nd from right