Originally Posted by
Stratosphere
No incentive? How about world domination and knocking us off the #1 spot and ruining the US economy.
No. Destroying the US and global economy would destroy much of their own economy as well. Getting caught doing an unprovoked WMD attack against the US would get them nuked, and one thing which we still have them vastly over-matched on is strategic nuclear capability and capacity.
They actually do not aspire to global domination, they aspire to regional domination, and global leadership. They would like to see us knocked off the #1 spot, but a covert WMD attack which would result in the immediate destruction of China as we know it is not in their playbook. They are many things, stupid or suicidal are not among them, same for North Korea (Iran on the other hand does have some folks who wouldn't mind meeting Allah sooner rather than later).
Originally Posted by
Stratosphere
I find it ironic that this supposed wet market it originated at is in the same city as a level 4 bio lab. No I guess that has no irony there. A
No irony that the lab is there to study the viruses known to originate from the area.
It is at least possible that covid escaped from the lab, it is not possible that it was released intentionally (also almost impossible that it was genetically engineered).
Either way, they apparently withheld information from the world community for too long, and probably bear some responsibility for the scope of the pandemic. They're generally bad people (the CCP), if you want to be mad at them there's plenty of valid justification without making things up.