Over at Glen Reynolds place: buddy Ed Driscoll [1] posts this:
OUT ON A LIMB: The Wuhan-Lab Theory Is Not Far-Fetched. Just Look at China’s Reckless Rocket Program [2].
The Chinese government does not give a rat’s patootie if it hurts or kills people in other countries. It wants what it wants, and it doesn’t care who pays the price in blood.
Oh, and one other point in that Times article: “Chinese space officials have not publicly addressed the uncontrolled re-entry since then, despite attention and worry around the world.”
When the Chinese government is confronted with a problem, the regime’s default setting is to deny the problem exists.
There is no border crisis according to the Biden White House.
Etc, etc.
Same tactics, same goals.