Made In China Wuhan Covid And The Quest For Biotech Supremacy

Binding: Hardcover
Description: What might Covid - 19 mean for and reveal about China's place in the world? 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 5 G 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.
Title: Made In China Wuhan Covid And The Quest For Biotech Supremacy
Author(s): Becker Jasper
Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Barcode: 9781787384675
Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Date: 9/1/2021
Category: International Relations