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Wikipedia:

> The Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences is a research institute on virology administered by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), which reports to the State Council of the People's Republic of China.

It would be reasonable by most people's definitions to blame whoever has oversight over a virology lab that leaked a virus. In this (alleged) case, that's the Chinese government.

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The US outsourced virus research to this lab. The US will share some blame, because gain-of-function research is stupid in the first place.

Is this part of the misdirection? Both sides do not want to know. Or let's say powerful interests on both sides.

The chinese government doesnt owe me anything though. Sure, it's bad that they killed a bunch of their citizens, but they do that all the time

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