I totally agree that is also used to align people against China and not only in America.

You can also assume that when modelling the potential outcomes of this pandemic, most projections probably estimated much more severe impact on high density populations, like China and India.

This was our counter CCP move. We helped to set up the BSL4 lab in Wuhan and we gave them methods/tech to work with recombinant coronaviruses. Look at the link: 1 year after the patent on coronavirus modifications was issued (2002) we got the first SARS-CoV and 1 year after when patent ownership was transferred to NIH we got SARS-CoV-2.

[link to patents.google.com (secure)]

By then also the method to add furine cleavage site is available and 2018 EcoHealth Alliance asks DoD money to put it into hundreds of viruses.