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Made in China, Wuhan, COVID and the quest for biotech supremacy, Jasper Becker

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Made in China, Wuhan, COVID and the quest for biotech supremacy, Jasper Becker

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Made in China

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Jasper Becker

Sub title

Wuhan, COVID and the quest for biotech supremacy

Summary

The coronavirus pandemic started in Wuhan, home to the leading lab studying the SARS virus and bats. Was that pure coincidence? This book explores what we know, and still don't know, about the origins of COVID-19, and how it was handled in China. We may never get all the answers, but much is already clear: China's record as the origin of earlier pandemics, and its struggle to bring contagious diseases under control; its history as both a victim of biological warfare and a developer of deadly bioweapons. When Covid broke out, Wuhan was building science parks to realise Beijing's ambitions in biotech research. Whoever achieves global leadership of the gene-editing industry stands to harvest great power and wealth. China has already challenged Western technological supremacy with 5G and in other industries. Yet this tiny, invisible virus has cruelly exposed a critical flaw in the Chinese political system: obsessive secrecy. The West wanted to trust the PRC, hoping that, as it prospered, it would become an open society. Made in China reveals how Beijing's leaders have betrayed that trust

Target audience

adult

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Wuhan, COVID and the quest for biotech supremacy

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