The U.S. Commerce Department has slapped trade restrictions on dozens of Chinese entities over their role in weaponizing biotechnology and other U.S. innovations to bolster the Chinese military and further its human rights abuses. Among the 34 Chinese entities targeted is the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, China’s top medical research institute run by the Chinese military, alongside its 11 research institutes, for aiding the Chinese military with biotechnology, including “purported brain-control weaponry,” the department said, without elaborating on the technology. The Academy of Military Medical Sciences in 2018 applied for a patent for technology for collecting and processing brain signals, according to an online patent repository. The Institute of Radiation and Radiation Medicine, one of its subsidiaries targeted, in 2012 published a Chinese paper discussing how to establish a data bank on the behavioral effects of “mind control assault weapons.” Trade restrictions were also imposed on HMN Technologies, formerly …