Firstly, it‘s an opinion piece. Secondly, even the article admits „there is no evidence that the virus now plaguing the world was engineered; scientists largely agree it came from animals“. Finally, coming from a country that’s losing it‘s credibility in the rest of the world by the hour — talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Still, I wouldn‘t rule out anything shady by any government of any country worldwide.
Okay, but is it not shady the measures China has taken to not speak about the Wuhan labs? You know, like a normal cicilized country would and should do to get to the bottom of how it originated? Instead China now is washing hands, and have good opportunities to buy up large lums of shares in European companies in a general transparent union like the EU.
They've done unethical experiments - we cant just rule it out. Instead we get no picture about it at all. I of course, like you, also loathe american cover ups and crappy US ruling, but that does not make it OK for China to not shine a light on the issue
And dont dismiss the article as just an opinion piece. It states facts and reports from earlier years over raised concern. Some of it is surely opinion, but the article ALSO says it is not certain that it came from the lab. So it's not like its just a pro American agenda. More like a healthy critical journalist angle. With China, you always need someone to ask serious questions as they operate very much under the radar.