It's the great lie at the heart of world politics. I would challenge anyone to argue how China's totalitarianism is better than Russia's. Whereas with the USSR we had the cold war and trade sanctions, and even recently, presidential impeachment proceedings, with China it's like a love-in for business people and scientists.

Imagine American scientists conducting clandestine collaborations with Soviet scientists at Soviet biodefense labs to work on potential bioweapons - then not publishing their work outside the Russian lab and refusing to answer questions about it. They'd be locked up as traitorous spies. But that's exactly the situation we've got today with scientist collaborating with WIV - but this time the media treats them like they're untouchable gods.

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