I'll let you in on something else that used to be a conspiracy and is now true. They did it on purpose. Between sanctions and tarifs the Chinese economy was being crushed by Trump. They needed a way to reset the world economy.
Alternatively, there are opportunists ready when presented with a reality
Here, it relies on damning China for having a vaccine ready so fast. China’s vaccine doesn’t work and their population is still susceptible to covid. They take a separate opportunity for just waiting for weaker strains to evolve and circulate.
It isn’t competence. There is no tree of plans. It is just reactions that seem beneficial at the time.
Who is they? I find it difficult to believe China's government is behind it. They a reversing course on their one child policy because they realize the collapse coming from their low fertility rate. Better yet, they introduced significant incentives in order to fix this rate. Their zerocovid policy is incidentally so crazy because they fear population decline.
Worse yet, this ongoing issue is exacerbating the huge wealth disparity of east-west in china and imminent peasant revolt is likely. China isn't in a spot where they want to do this.
I would certainly see it the other way. the USA was quite involved in the wuhan lab. The USA could certainly have been the 'they' though obviously this whole Meng Wanzhou and Huawei thing in Canada ties together with the winnipeg lab and chinese national sending viruses to wuhan.
The Chinese economy was not “crushed by Trump”.
Though if OP felt like making the case for willfulness with any type of elaboration or reference, that would be nice.
Shutting down ALL internal Chinese travel from Wuhan, but letting international departures - that did happen, after all the more the merrier, let the world share our misery. Additionally let our stooge at WHO keep parroting how air travel is safe and essential!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/05/us/coronavirus-flights-wu...
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/04/us/us-wuhan-evacuation-fl...
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/05/cdc-says-us-is-accepting-fou...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-usa/two-more...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/coronavirus-china-trav...
https://www.reuters.com/article/china-health-britain/british...
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/23/21078325/wuhan-china-coronavir...
“Travel restrictions can cause more harm than good by hindering info-sharing, medical supply chains and harming economies,” said the World Health Organization director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152
12:18 PM · Jan 14, 2020 "Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China."
WHO waited full week to Jan 30 before declaring "outbreak meeting the criteria for a Public Health Emergency of International Concern".
It is all in the articles you linked.
> Shutting down ALL internal Chinese travel from Wuhan, but letting international departures - that did happen, after all the more the merrier, let the world share our misery. ...
implying China allowed the flights to leave so they can infect the rest of the world, when in fact China did stop international flights from leaving, but the US, UK governments lobbied hard for these repatriation flights due to their own domestic politics.