I agree with your speculations.
Everywhere an American looked an item was marked made in this country (China). Now that reliance was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products , When Americans hailed that leaders decision to make many of them in their country.
Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies, since that change in American leadership, wave the American flag and present his name when doing so. All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader,
Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy.
The way this whole thing developed starting with the Italian fashion industry areas controlled by the Chinese commies hit by a runaway CoVid19. Sure looks suspicious particularly when crews of naval vessels somehow wind up being infected by it.
