Here’s what doesn’t make sense though ...
yes the bio-attack strategy might work if you’re launching total war, BUT that would amount to China attacking everyone (including Russia - you think they’ll forgive?) - great way to turn the the whole World against you. Even the Nazis learned you get defeated if you have to fight everyone.
plus, we see now that this wasn’t a knock-out blow, and one of the end results is many supply chains will move OUT of China after this ... so China has basically jacked itself over if this was part of a biowarfare plan. And, people will be now on the alert for any possible repeats in the future, which would only further damage China’s image
Really stupid stategy if it was deliberate ... has to have been an accidental RELEASE, though they may have been secretly working on it as a bioweapon ... which would explain why they can’t admit it was an accident
China is fighting a war of attrition. Time and pressure and useful media along with those like the director of WHO.
I have read several reports of the actual patient zero being a PLA researcher in the biolab at Wuhan, sprayed in the face with the blood of a test animal. Her care nurse went to the market for food, and that’s how it got out.
If it were actually accidental, the CCP should have said so, immediately, rather than covering it up. Their ham-handed attempt at face saving was a huge strategic mistake. By arresting the doctors in Wuhan who raised alarm only says this was not a mistake.
They needed the finished product to arrive in Italy first.
The extreme gap in ethnic groups that are in critical from this goes back to a 2015 article by the PLA second in command stating that they would find an ethnic specific bioweapon.
China knows how we are a “mixed” society, while they are frighteningly homogenous. That lends itself to their strategy.
You’re a little bit off with your theory.
This may well have been a knock-out blow.
The only risk China faces is if all the world recognizes that this is a bio-weapon attack, and muster up the resolve to retaliate. I’m convinced, and so are the Chinese, that won’t happen.
It was an attack, like the US tariffs. It was meant to change behavior not destroy.....this time.
Russia would be on board with any attack by China on the USA. There is a reason why Lenin is unburied and why the Russian state has worked hard to defend the legacy of Stalin and maintain Communist traditions.
As for the Chinese economy, the Chinese will cease caring about the economy the moment they decide to go to war. If this was indeed a biological attack designed to crush the western economy, it would mean that a follow up attack once the economy crashes is guaranteed--but only if the Chinese really intended to do this.
It wasn’t a stupid strategy because it wasn’t a strategy.
It was a tactic.
Weaken and then attack is the strategy.
Well, it only took three Flu epidemics from China to get our attention.