Does anyone still have any memory of Iraq? China haters still remember Tibet so surely its not to much of a stretch? Saddam had nothing to fear cause he had no WMD and knew it. So he let the investigators in. That went well for him didn’t it?

Faucci made it clear, not gain of function in the case of human viruses, which apparently allowed gain in function research on coronavirus bat viruses.

Fort Detrick was closed because of safety reasons.Thereafter American scientists collaborated with the Wuhan lab on gain of function projects
It’s not so clearcut as the Wuhan lab is purely Chinese

The hypothesis that it was unlikely to be engineered or originated from a lab is based on scientific not politicised grounds. This remains the consensus view of most scientists, including our own. See NZ Herald’s article on 3 June “Covid 19 coronavirus: Why the lab leak theory is still unlikely”.

The CCP didn’t seem to mind when the politicized theory that it was impossible to have been engineered or originated from a lab. They hoped it would stay that way.

> Nothing to fear, nothing to hide?

Not in the current political climate. Even if there is nothing to hide, China has plenty to fear given the toxic politicisation of the investigation into the COVID origins. It might hold the view that the West would accept nothing short of a guilty verdict and have no qualms in using any means to achieve just that.

They closed the Wuhan lab January 2020, the Americans their lab in 2018.

Closed down in 2018.