28 April 2020

Bio-warfare Narratives May Chill Pandemic Cooperation

Dr. Christina Lin 

After a temporary détente between the US and China to put aside the blame game and cooperate to fight Covid19, it seems conspiracy theories are once again flaring up and sabotaging joint efforts to control the pandemic. Washington is pushing a narrative that the virus may have escaped from a Wuhan bioweapons lab, while Beijing has a counter-narrative that US soldiers may have brought the virus from a Fort Detrick bioweapons lab to the October Military Games in Wuhan. As this escalates, and just as both countries are flattening the curve to consider reopening their economies, the sudden tit-for-tat bio-warfare narratives may throw both countries back into chaos. 

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