We now all know that there was U.S. involvement in the creation of COVID-19, and that Anthony Fauci himself was involved. But it is still generally assumed that the Chinese government was involved as well.
What if it wasn't? What if the lab in Wuhan was working for the U.S. Deep State unbeknownst to the Chinese government? What if the Chinese government is telling the truth when it denies responsibility for the virus?
If you want to frame someone for a hit-and-run, you don't frame a little old lady from Pasadena who only drives her car to church on Sundays. You frame an alcoholic or drug addict with prior driving infractions. When picking a patsy, you always pick someone who plausibly seems like the type of person who would do it.
Would the Chinese Communist Party attack us with a bio-weapon? I have no doubt that they would if they thought it was to their advantage. But would and did are two different things. And the fact that the CCP is the type to do such a thing makes them the perfect patsy for a frame-up.
Such a frame-up would serve at least two purposes. Firstly, it would keep the Left and Right fighting over whether or not to blame the CCP, while no one is pointing fingers at the real culprit: the U.S. Deep State. Secondly, it could help escalate war (or at least a breakdown in relations) between the U.S. and China, which could possibly benefit the Deep State. If it's true that Plan A was to have Hillary Clinton start a nuclear war with Russia, maybe a war with China is their Plan B.
This is all speculation, of course. But I think it's a possibility worth considering.
If you look at what happens in the US you do see certain patterns. Typically, a clandestine project will be started by a government agency using taxpayer dollars. If that project shows promise it will be renamed and moved to the private sector. That avoids any embarassing FOIAs and allows the government department to put its hand on its heart and say the project has stopped.
Finances have to be arranged to further the project. Sometimes that is done with government grants and sometimes through non-profit organisations. We know that you are not supposed to be able to specify where your donation to a non-profit goes but I don't suppose anyone takes much notice of that in practice.
For instance, we have MKUltra that was moved into private hospitals in Canada. We had the Pentagon's Lifelog moved to the private sector and called Facebook and now we have experiments from Fort Detrick moved to China, possibly via Canada, to avoid scrutiny in the US.
The climate scam used an interesting ploy. Government decided policy but wanted to be forced into for plausible deniability purposes. They would contact the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA would then contact a non-profit environmentalist group and ask them to sue the EPA to help make the case for the desired government policy. The EPA would provide them with the finance to do that from its tax receipts.
The EPA would then get sued. They would report to the government that people were suing them for this particular issue and then the government felt safe in proposing the policy they wanted to enact in the first place. It is a variant of the "wrap-up smear" much loved by Nancy Pelosi.