I sure would be surprised. There is a reason Hitler never used poison gas on enemy troops. Because he knew the British, Russians and Americans would immediately use it on his troops, and they had more gas than he did. Even a tyrant knows better than to use a weapon likely to harm his own side more than the enemy. There is no dictator alive today who would be so crazy as to let loose a virus when his own country does not have an antidote. Bioweapons are only useful when your side has vaccines ready, and the other side does not.
Besides, no one is at war with anyone at present. If you have a potent weapon, it makes no sense to use it before you go to war. The other side will develop countermeasures and reduce the effectiveness. For example, German Zeppelin and airplane air raids on London during the First World War in 1915 prompted to British to develop countermeasures, and these countermeasures were effective at blunting the German air offensive in the Battle of Britain in 1940. (The only major change in 1940 over 1915 was the addition of radar.) In other words, in WWI the Germans conducted 50 raids and killed 557 people. As a consequence, the British learned how to set up observers, telephone lines, patrols, and other effective countermeasures to the air raids. After 1940 it was clear that the WWI raids were a lot more beneficial to England than Germany.
Assume for a moment that China deliberately loosed this virus. Since it originated in China, they are the only suspect. It could not have been Switzerland, Canada or Russia. China did manage to control the virus to a remarkable extent, in a short time. But no one could have predicted that with confidence. It might have killed hundreds of thousands. They might have hurt themselves more than they hurt any other country. Why would they take that risk? China is mainly an economic power, and this hurt their customers and shrank their business. Why would they do that? I can see doing it during an all-out war they are losing, but there is no rational reason to do it now. Say what you like about the Chinese government, it is not irrational or delusional. It acts in the best interests of the nation.
Hitler didn’t use poison gas because it didn’t kill enough, not because he was afraid of retaliation in kind.
China would sacrifice 1,000,000 of their population to gain political ends, they are like worker bees, the colony is important, not the individual.
They do NOT want to go to war with the US, no one does, they will lose and they know it.
this was they can simply deny it, but they get all of the useful intel of which there is scads.
China population believes what they are told to believe, much like Group Think Red and Blue here in the US.
No dictator alive that would crash planes into the World Trade Center center either?
What you KNOW about the virus in China is exactly what you have been told by China, nothing more.
China wants political, economic and military hegemony in the East, they cannot attain this via war, they will lose, they know this.
So how do they go about it?
You’re seeing it now.
Again, I would not be surprised.
