The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 946 World Turmoil
Not long after the Spring Festival, a major event caused a sensation around the world.

On February 2, the British journal Nature announced that the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh had successfully asexually bred the sheep 'Dolly' seven months ago.

The cloned sheep 'Dolly' can be regarded as a milestone in the history of bioengineering development!

As soon as the news came out, it caused a great sensation, and public opinion quickly divided into two camps, one supporting the development of cloning technology, and the other opposing cloning technology!
Cloning technology is the process of using biotechnology to produce offspring with exactly the same genetic tissue as the original individual through asexual reproduction. Scientists call the process of artificial genetic manipulation of animal reproduction cloning, and this biotechnology is called cloning technology, which means asexual reproduction.

Cloning technology is not a new thing. In fact, up to now, cloning technology has gone through three stages of development.

The first period is microbial cloning, which is to use one bacterium to quickly replicate thousands of bacteria that are exactly the same as it and become a bacterial colony.

The second period is biotechnology cloning, such as using genetic genes - DNA cloning.

The third period is animal cloning, which is cloning an animal from a cell.

The cloned sheep 'Dolly' was cloned from the somatic cells of a ewe using animal cloning technology.

The birth of Dolly the sheep has caused a sensation in the world. The special thing about Dolly is that she was born without the participation of sperm. The researchers first sucked out the genetic material from a sheep egg cell, turning it into an empty shell. Then they took a mammary cell from a 6-year-old ewe and injected the genetic material into the empty egg cell shell. In this way, they obtained an egg cell that contained new genetic material but was not fertilized. The modified egg cell divided and proliferated to form an embryo, which was then implanted into the uterus of another ewe. With the successful delivery of the ewe, Dolly came into the world.

Previously, other cloned animals did not have such a big impact on the world. The reason is that the genes of other cloned animals come from embryos, and the nuclear transplantation is done with embryonic cells, which cannot be strictly called "asexual reproduction." Another reason is that embryonic cells themselves reproduce sexually, and half of the genome in their cell nuclei comes from the father and half from the mother.

Cloning is a major technological breakthrough achieved by mankind in the field of biological sciences, reflecting the progress of cell nuclear differentiation technology, cell culture and control technology.

However, the major breakthrough in animal cloning technology has also brought about widespread controversy.

The benefits of cloning technology are obvious. For example, cloning technology can relieve the pain of women who cannot become mothers. The implementation of cloning experiments has promoted the development of genetics and opened up prospects for "manufacturing" animal organs that can be transplanted into the human body. Cloning technology can be used to detect genetic defects in the fetus. Cloning technology can be used to treat damage to the nervous system. In in vitro fertilization surgery, one egg cell can be cloned into multiple ones for fertilization, thereby greatly improving the success rate of pregnancy.

However, there are many disadvantages. For example, cloning will reduce genetic variation. Individuals produced by cloning have the same genetic genes and the same disease susceptibility. One disease can destroy the entire cloned population. It is conceivable that if all cattle in a country are cloned, a minor virus may destroy the country's livestock industry.

In addition, the use of cloning technology will make people tend to reproduce the most valuable individuals in the existing population in large quantities, rather than promoting the survival of the fittest in the entire population according to natural laws. In this sense, cloning technology interferes with the natural evolution process.

Furthermore, cloning is an expensive technology that requires a lot of money and the participation of biological professionals, and the failure rate is very high. Dolly is the only result of 277 experiments.

Of course, if there is a biggest drawback, it is that cloning technology can be used to create "supermen", or people with strong physiques but low intelligence. Moreover, if cloning technology can be effectively used in humans, men will lose their genetic significance.

The impact of cloning technology on family relationships will also be huge. A child cloned from his father's DNA can be regarded as his father's twin brother, but born decades later. It is hard to imagine how a person would feel when he or she finds out that he or she is just a complete copy of another person.
The whole world was shaken by the cloned sheep 'Dolly', and the angry British people even wanted to destroy the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh.

Countless people have called on the country to ban cloning technology.

Amidst all this turmoil, the situation in Africa, where no one was paying attention, got further out of control.

The war in Algeria spread to Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Congo and Nigeria.

It can be said that most of Africa is caught in the flames of war. There are religious reasons, tribal reasons, economic reasons, and the game between major powers.

France was furious and sent troops to Africa in an attempt to stabilize the situation.

France must not lose its interests in Africa. With its interests in Africa, France will be a world-class country. Without Africa, France will never succeed!

Liu Tao looked at the intelligence and frowned slightly. To be honest, the situation was out of control this time, which was beyond Liu Tao's expectations.

In his plan, all this should be subtle, like a frog in boiling water, and change slowly without causing war.

Because it is not easy to build, but very easy to destroy.

But plans often cannot keep up with changes, there are too many factors involved.

The Americans now have strong strategic determination and would never start a war, but that does not mean the CIA cannot cause trouble. The CIA is behind the out-of-control situation in Africa this time.

Now, Americans may not necessarily be able to accomplish something, but they often have the ability to prevent others from accomplishing something.

The CIA's target this time is the French interests in Africa.

Whenever a war breaks out, the existing order will be impacted and disrupted, and this chaotic situation is a good opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

No wonder the French are furious.

Because once war breaks out in these African countries, the French will suffer the greatest losses.

What is even more horrifying is that the CIA is pushing refugees from war-torn countries in Africa to go to Europe.

For Africans, Europe is a developed country with high social welfare, which is undoubtedly a paradise. They usually try their best to go to Europe, not to mention during times of war.

Some European media have been constantly advocating that European countries should accept some African refugees out of humanitarianism, and claim that this is Europe's atonement for the African slave trade.

Some European charitable foundations sent boatloads of African refugees to the United States, and after being rejected by Americans, they were dropped off at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Both sides were fighting with great pleasure.

Even some refugees from Latin America suddenly began to head towards the border, intending to go to the United States, the beacon of humanity and paradise on earth.

(End of this chapter)