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I've long believed that China's been experimenting on its own people with biological agents. Centuries ago, innocent people were skewered with swords just to simply prove the sharpness of the weapon. People in China were the cheapest commodity and readily available. Why should that practice change now?

Almost every great power has done some research into biological weapons which includes the US. The Soviet Union had a huge program, but I don't whether they ever weaponized any agents. Stories swirled around that they used chemical agents in Afghanistan.

I did heard China had done some research into genetic based biological weapons. They want to develop weapons that are race specific. In otherwards, if released on the battlefield or on a enemy territory if only kill non-asians.

To my knowledge only passive delivery of biological weapons has happened; small pox infected blankets, rats which carried the vector for the plague.

It is suspect that two major diseases have cropped up in the same geographical region, but until there is more credible evidence that the Bird Flu, and SARS has artificial origins. We must assume they are natural in origin. Biological weapons have only been used a few time as a weapon of mass destruction. My guess is that biological weapons aren't very controllable, and that is especially true in a world of ubiquitous travel.