China has painted itself into a corner. With its uncompromising policy of zero COVID, now it has no herd immunity, and the day it softens its isolation policy, millions will get sick. The hated Xi dictatorship cannot allow that to happen. With time, they will find a solution and also, a way to explain it to their non-voting citizens.
China's reaction to this bioweapon attack (if it was that) was instinctive: total isolation. Isolation was the historical reaction of China (and Japan) to the first contact with Europeans. Japan understood relatively fast (two hundred years) that isolation does not work, and adopted the opposite policy of openness. China of our days apparently is still unable to react fast and flexibly to a new situation. In the pic.: massive disinfectant spraying in all cities. COVID is a virus that spreads by personal contact, exterminating rats and insects is indifferent to the virus. I think it is another wrong reaction, and I am surprised because the Chinese people are very far from being stupid.
My conclusion is that China is impotent and will lose against a tricky, crafty, crooked enemy, such as the USA. We go by the Bible: "You shall wage war by the way of deception."
If it is true that the USA created and liberated this bioweapon, well, it is being a success. China's GNP growth has been stopped. Israel's reaction was the fastest and most audacious, and it is successful. I am happy and proud.