[sterlind]

One of the issues in treaty monitoring for bioweapons is that so much research is inherently dual-use. The CDC synthesized Spanish flu and infected primates to study why it was so lethal.. they've even tweaked regular strains of flu to make them more lethal, in order to study what genetic factors influence virulence and mortality. There are legitimate, compelling reasons to make even genetically engineered pathogens. Even straight-up engineered bioweapons can be used to study defenses.

[ngcc_hk]

Just do not leak and not under communist rule.

Even if this is not, you just cannot trust them. They leak sars in their Beijing lab

“ In fact, the SARS virus had ‘escaped’ multiple times from a lab in Beijing, according to the Nature article.”