The COVID pandemic showed that the U.S. urgently needs to reinvest in intelligence capabilities, especially human intelligence in China, writes Shay Khatiri.
reported that COVID’s origin can be traced to a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. It’s brought the “lab leak” issue back to public debate.
It took three years for us to collectively admit something that should have not been controversial: If there’s a virology lab somewhere, if the government of that country is tyrannical, secretive, and paranoid, and if there is an epidemic in that area, it is possible that we are dealing with a human conspiracy, not undercooked bat steak.
First, some intelligence agencies have concluded that the COVID leak likely came from the lab, while others have rejected that estimate. What all have in common is that they have low confidence in their conclusions. We will never know whether the coronavirus could have been contained at the time, but the world did little to jump ahead of the virus by quickly moving to shield itself from transmission and develop treatments and vaccines. A major reason we knew little about the virus and its epoch-defining potential was that the intelligence agencies were neither paying attention, nor capable of collecting the necessary data and information.
First, as much as Republicans and Democrats cannot stand each other—as well as the millions of Americans who cannot stand either of them—we are still a free country, while China is totalitarian. Knee-jerk rejection of whatever comes from the mouth of someone from the other U.S. party will unnecessarily hinder our ability to resolve important issues that transcend partisan politics.
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