Eco health alliance created this plague and Fauci paid for it to be offshored out of reach of US laws. The culpability of the Chinese is for accepting the contract and the sloppiness of their facilities that allowed the breach.
It also effectively shields a lab from a military strike from the U.S., or anyone else, to place the lab in China.
And for releasing it deliberately. It’s obvious. China BADLY needed to stop the growing and spreading protests of fall 2019. They and DC, BADLY needed to derail Trump.
They released it and hyped it to justify the draconian lockdowns that killed the protests, and for “the party” in DC to bring in mail-in voting.
SO they released an average SARS bug. Just had to be scary enough to justify mass repression.
Not a leak.