Also Israel officially didn’t make such a claim, it was some Israeli researcher offering his own view.
Just another way to slam Israel. And no one was saying China was spreading it to it’s own people on purpose, as per Riyanta. They are saying the Chinese screwed up and it got out of its lab by accident. It’s actions show that it knows what the virus is and the government is freaking out about it!
The Chinese are on the record as saying North America would need to be depopulated in order to conquer it, and they would need to figure out a way to do so with biologicals without inciting us to nuke the shit out of them. In the same speech (Chi Hoisin ~2005) it was commented that they could suffer the loss of hundreds of millions as long as the party survived.
Having something with a 5-20% mortality rate get loose starting there is a pretty decent plausible deniability scenario...