China had some plans.....

[Diamondback]

That has me back and forth about accident vs intentional. I'm 60/40 that it was a result of their gross incompetence in QC; that said, the timing was certainly suspect. Also, given the apparently prevailing ChiCom attitude of "If we go down everyone goes with us" that lends credence to the on-purpose argument. The 40 in my 60/40 opinion says that it wasn't bad enough to cause us to nuke them (and left a lingering possibility that is was indeed an accident) but they knew it would wreck Western economies at a time when they were eating economic shit and would do whatever necessary to see to it that they were not at the bottom of the heap.

A future POTUS (not the current fraudulent one of course) needs to make it perfectly clear to the ChiCom leadership that if the "one up their sleeve" ever happens and whitey starts dying off then our last act will be to incinerate the population of China, and MEAN IT. Every man, woman, and child. Conquer the world with vaporized corpses you bastards! Just like they will take everyone down with them I'd make it damn clear to them that we will do the same and won't hesitate. Do it via some backdoor channels to allow them to "save face" publicly but make it unequivocally clear what the response will be.

Agreed. Problem is, PRP has become compromised and many of the officers who've been entrusted with the responsibility to turn the keys have said they won't no matter what. Kinda takes the "Reliability" out of "Personnel Reliability Program"...

[Averageman]

That has me back and forth about accident vs intentional. I'm 60/40 that it was a result of their gross incompetence in QC; that said, the timing was certainly suspect. Also, given the apparently prevailing ChiCom attitude of "If we go down everyone goes with us" that lends credence to the on-purpose argument. The 40 in my 60/40 opinion says that it wasn't bad enough to cause us to nuke them (and left a lingering possibility that is was indeed an accident) but they knew it would wreck Western economies at a time when they were eating economic shit and would do whatever necessary to see to it that they were not at the bottom of the heap.

A future POTUS (not the current fraudulent one of course) needs to make it perfectly clear to the ChiCom leadership that if the "one up their sleeve" ever happens and whitey starts dying off then our last act will be to incinerate the population of China, and MEAN IT. Every man, woman, and child. Conquer the world with vaporized corpses you bastards! Just like they will take everyone down with them I'd make it damn clear to them that we will do the same and won't hesitate. Do it via some backdoor channels to allow them to "save face" publicly but make it unequivocally clear what the response will be.

There's a third choice
It escaped and stuff got dicey, when it went from Dicey to a really big issue, they let go of all controls and started shipping the infected world wide.
Yes, I believe it could have been stopped locally, but communism doesn't promote coming forward with a problem do they? By the time someone began to look, all of WuHan was infected. Rather than take action and shut everything down they took a moment, looked at their position and began exporting it.

[flenna]

There's a third choice
It escaped and stuff got dicey, when it went from Dicey to a really big issue, they let go of all controls and started shipping the infected world wide.
Yes, I believe it could have been stopped locally, but communism doesn't promote coming forward with a problem do they? By the time someone began to look, all of WuHan was infected. Rather than take action and shut everything down they took a moment, looked at their position and began exporting it.

Having the ComDem party in their pocket also helped China. CCP knew the ComDems would not let a crisis get to waste.