The World Needs to Know What Happened at the Wuhan Lab
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Meaningful options appear to be "nothing," "enact some form of retribution/revenge against China," and "invade China so it never happens again, and also arrange the world so similar authoritarian governments with nontrivial research skills never arise again."
The second option doesn't really seem like it will do anything but mollify some people's feelings. The third option seems really, really hard and also not really well-defined. So the first option may have the same outcome as the rest, but is far easier.
Domestic propaganda push in china is leaking externally, including posts by a non-existing Swiss scienist that has the Swiss embassy protesting. [2]
With the Wuhan lab theory we at least have independent confirmation of gain of function research at the lab and knowledge that covid virus fragments were sequenced from the area before the real outbreak started.
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58273322 [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58168588
Also the CDC limited information about the shutdown due to "national security concerns".
Archived NYT article from August 6 2019:
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/health-officials-to...
https://patch.com/virginia/burke/another-respiratory-outbrea...
I mean, the argument of the comment at the top of this thread seems pretty straightforward to me: if it's a norm to explain what's going on at biological research labs with links to the military, then that norm applies to everyone, not just China. The world deserves to have a detailed and open accounting of what went on, even if the accounting is "Nothing relevant." And in a practical sense, if the US abides by the norm that public reports on military bio-warfare labs are expected, it gives the US a much better bargaining position when asking other people to abide by that norm.