What did he get in return?
I don’t think Fauci got anything (money-wise) in return. He was more or less financing lab research that almost all US university labs or private labs would have questioned and ran extreme control over. His agenda, I suspect...was a quick return on the research cutting a 15-year project down to five years.
I also don’t think the Chinese lab really reported back to the national authorities on what they were doing or developing.
Wouldn’t surprise me if in this whole lab in Wuhan....maybe fewer than twenty people knew the full extent of what they were doing, and maybe only a handful knew Fauci was financing the project, not the gov’t of China.