Opinion

COVID Proved We’re Unprepared to Handle China’s Dictatorship

IT’S OK TO SAY IT

The Chinese government has repeatedly proven it’s an untrustworthy threat to the world. And the U.S. intelligence community hasn’t adjusted to meet the challenge.

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I owe Sen. Tom Cotton an apology. Early in the pandemic, I called)" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.thebulwark.com/covid-19-and-our-coming-clash-with-china/__;!!LsXw!VUgYUkCzefXjB4U1HbYJwTpahu64G6avP2aFG3uu-bEr98GKh7Yr-GZdYPVkyH6Ys2hF9VShIz1UGYANV3WnwYLlDijB0g$">called a theory he was pushing—that COVID leaked from a Wuhan lab—“hot garbage.”

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