Mostly they're working on common shit like fertility, and physical fitness, is my guess. Those are big money. They also want natural super soldiers and to increase their genius count for the PLA.
The chinese are pursuing the correct path in this regard.
They should be heavily invested in increasing the genetic fitness of all their people. Imagine for a moment what the chinese people will say if they can trade off having an extra kid, in exchange for one that will grow up immune to cancer, smoking, alcoholism, mental illness, will be perfectly fit, and score 115-130 on an IQ test?
There are genes for self control, for celebrity (both physical and social charisma), genes for memory, genes for emotional intelligence, for height, weight, and eye color.
What the chinese are working on is designer babies.
Having those genes is a really good start in life.
It's the third form of genetics.
Hard kill - government lowers popultion and improves fitness by killing the unfit
Soft kill - government discourages or dis-incentivizes the unfit from raising families.
Interventionism - government mandates specific genetic alterations to embros or in-utero that improves fitness.
The good thing if we ever unlock the full potential of genetic manipulation is that everyone will end up white in the end, no matter who first discovered it.
One side will inevitably try to keep and restrict the technology only to themselves, in varying degrees, creating a caste system.
Competition, jealousy, and status, drive civilization.
But in theory, yes, dysgenics could be entirely eliminated through self-selection.
Caste systems are fine and natural. Any pro-eugenics society will end up with light-skinned on top either way.
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