That strategy would economically back fire. As it is doing now.
A follow on conversation would actually encourage stronger trade protection for the US which is not what China wants (unless they want to go back into isolation on the world stage, I strongly doubt it).
If traced to one of the labs, accidental or non-sanctioned release would be my first guess. I’m having a hard time figuring what a purposeful release would accomplish beyond genocide or tightening the power structures grip on their society. Which could also backfire.
Where they have beat the US is based on our own greed. Corporation, politicians, and us (Walmart shoppers). They allowed the decimation of our manufacturing base to point of eating into strategic industries.
Recall the most self serving idiotic phrase I’ve ever heard from a national security perspective, “we’ll become a service economy”. Which means, we’ll just manage other countries labor and industry to produce goods for us and then take any profit. Yeah, right. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. I’m mean, next level dumb. Short term thinking from those who already have the loftiest positions as Captains of industry. But, it’s enough to convince the plebs that the US population can sit around in their Pajamas, manage other peoples work, and receive trickle down profits off others labor. FFS, the US has allowed the outsource of the manufacturing of advanced military technologies (stealth, composites, etc) to our adversaries. How f’ing insane is that?
