Former Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ordzhonikidze believes that the United States is developing weapons that target specific genes, and that the research in Mongolia might be focused on Chinese genetics.
'Washington’s reluctance to provide transparency regarding their military-biological activities in various regions of the world ... raises the question of what is actually happening.'
The first popular lab theory, put forward in a Jan. 26 article in the Washington Times, suggested COVID-19 was the result of biological warfare gone wrong.
With the possibility of biological warfare now a reality, a serious complication for China will be its image, suspicions of its role and whether it shared pertinent data about the pandemic with the world in time.
Subject to the U.S.’s economic capability after the pandemic, the ability to find a consensus to put defense spending on hold for the sake of human security will be key.