Rich liberals, like Soros, are simply middlemen for the Chinks, who not only have the resources to sustain this sort of thing, but have every reason for wanting to do it.
The International left is behind it but China is their ideal society and China would be all to happy to extend its model of governance to the US.
Dont forget that Fauci said we had to model our response to the virus on the Chinese approach: lock down entire cities and imprison your people. And we did.