Ah, our desire to untangle and isolate ourselves from China even as we try to use and exploit what we can … This applies to almost every US administration of the past few decades, irrespective of party affiliation. US funds many research projects around the world and it did fund virus research in China, hopefully with reasonable return, so digging that up (or the source as the wet market vs. the lab) does precious little to help solve the problems that we are trying to solve as a global community. The glaring example has to be US semiconductor companies (or Jensen Huang anyway) decrying the ban on sale of advanced chips to China although the goal was to thwart their development of AI. Yet the same companies are now finding themselves at the receiving end with DeepSeek (which either did not require that kind of compute power or somehow managed to get it or produce their own), not to mention that most companies have some presence in China to leverage cheap labor and resources. Perhaps it is time to acknowledge that our futures (or fates) are far too intertwined, especially when it becomes merely an act of posturing devoid of action that can make a difference.