#China

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Qian Xuesen Qian Xuesen (H.S. Tsien) was a Chinese aerospace scientist who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, was expelled from the United States during the McCarthy era, returned to China where he directed its ballistic missile and space programs, and in later life endorsed state-sponsored research into 'Extraordinary Human Body Function' - a Chinese government euphemism for parapsychology - providing the scientific credibility that enabled large-scale EHBF research programs with military applications interest.
Zhang Baosheng Zhang Baosheng was the most extensively tested EHBF practitioner in China's 1980s military parapsychology programs, conducting demonstrations of claimed object teleportation at Beijing research institutes before his abilities were widely attributed to sleight of hand.

Special Competitive Studies Project The Special Competitive Studies Project is the nonprofit think tank Eric Schmidt founded in 2021 to continue his national-security commission's work on US competition with China in artificial intelligence and emerging technology.

Extraordinary Powers Craze The Extraordinary Powers Craze (1979-1989) was a period of officially sanctioned Chinese research into paranormal abilities sparked by the 1979 Tang Yu case and physicist Qian Xuesen's endorsement, involving military and academic programs before collapsing when fraud became undeniable.

Extraordinary Human Body Function Extraordinary Human Body Function (EHBF) was the Chinese government term for claimed paranormal abilities investigated by state-funded programs after physicist Qian Xuesen's 1979 endorsement, with the DIA's discovery of its scale providing competitive justification for continued American Psychoenergetics and STAR GATE investment.
Psychoenergetics Psychoenergetics was the Soviet-coined and DIA-adopted term for government parapsychology research covering clairvoyance, telepathy, and psychokinesis as potential intelligence tools, with the DIA's 1981 Psychoenergetics program serving as organizational predecessor to STAR GATE.
Qi Qi (also chi) is the traditional Chinese concept of a vital life force flowing through living things, central to Chinese medicine and martial arts, and invoked by Chinese parapsychology researchers in the EHBF programs as the mechanism underlying paranormal phenomena.
Qigong Qigong is a traditional Chinese practice of coordinated body posture and movement, breathing, and meditation used for health, spirituality, and martial arts training.