Propaganda...the reason Kazachstan was ideal is NOT because it offers “Chinese and Russian test subjects.” That is absolute crap. The reason it was chosen is because the Russians already got caught in that area violating the bioweapons treaty when they had an accidental release. The diseases being studied are precisely those pathogens Russian defector Ken Alibek revealed were being studied for weaponization by Russia in its republics before the USSR collapsed, and when it collapsed material was unaccounted for due to smuggling, etc.. The reason former Soviet scientists needed something useful to do was to provide them with an alternative to selling to smugglers or working for Qadaffi like Iraqi nuclear scientist Obeidi did, or working for Norms or Iran.
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