The signs are ominous. China's National Defense University, in the 2017 edition of the authoritative Science of Military Strategy, mentioned a new kind of biological warfare of "specific ethnic genetic attacks." Richard Fisher of the Virginia-based International Assessment and Strategy Center told Newsweek, "In a future war, we can expect China to use refined and targeted strains of coronavirus or other pathogens to target certain ethnic groups, certain countries, or certain age cohorts."
Fisher points out that 2020's devastation around the world is a proof of concept that bio weapons work. China's military, with its doctrine of "unrestricted warfare," would have no compunction about using such a weapon, which could be a nation-killer, perhaps even a civilization-killer. China, consequently, might be the only society left standing after the next pandemic.
So there is no point in waiting, as Biden proposes, for 90 days to get an assessment. He should declassify intelligence fast and begin to act at once. After all, how many more people does COVID-19 need to kill before the world takes effective action against China?
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