News Analysis A growing number of biotech, genomics, and medtech firms with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are operating in the United States, raising concerns about medical and genetic data security. With more than $1 trillion at its disposal, China’s sovereign wealth fund has over 33 percent of the world’s total sovereign wealth fund assets. Since 2017, much of this money has been flooding into U.S. biotech companies, as part of the CCP’s Made in China 2025. The industrial policy specifically identifies biotech as a strategic industry, entitled to government financial support. Consequently, Beijing has allocated $100 billion for investment in the sector. In 2018, China invested $5.1 billion in U.S. biotech companies, a 25 percent increase from the previous year. In keeping with the CCP’s “military-civil fusion strategy,” the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is involved in biotech research to develop bioweapons that target specific ethnic groups. In …