Who Loses When the China Bat Cave Implodes? | RealClearPolitics
What Saddam was actually hiding was that he didn t have WMDs. He was hiding that less from his Western enemies and more from his dangerous neighbor, Iran, and possibly from internal enemies in Iraq itself. That mistaken inference is worth remembering as we ponder the still-murky origins of the Wuhan virus. We know China is hiding something. What we don t know is what it is hiding and why.
- Beijing could be hiding that a natural virus escaped from the lab.
- Beijing could be hiding that the escaped virus was artificially enhanced, made more contagious and lethal (called gain of function ).
- Beijing could be hiding the fact that China s military was involved in this gain-of-function project, or at least in some aspects of the lab s research.
- Beijing could be hiding that Chinese political leaders knew, early on, that the virus spread from human to human and that it kept this crucial finding secret for months. During that period, Beijing and the WHO were falsely telling the world that the virus could not spread from human to human.
- Beijing could be hiding that Chinese leaders not only knew the virus was contagious, but that they acted on that knowledge by allowing Chinese nationals to travel freely around the world, spreading the disease, while sharply restricting travel within China from Wuhan. And, finally,
- Beijing could be hiding anything and everything simply because that s how totalitarian regimes operate. They always hide information, control the flow, and prevent outside inspections.
Whatever they re hiding, they have powerful reasons. The Chinese Communist Party knows how high the stakes are if it is found responsible for a deadly lab leak and for keeping that information secret when others could have acted promptly and saved countless lives. Americans will be outraged, as they should be, and Washington will be forced to take serious action.
Not very long. RTWT. Note that this list is non-exclusive and Beijing could be hiding more than one of the things listed above and also things not listed.