I don’t know much about politics, especially what is truly going on in politics (and not what we can detect as regular people, not insiders), but what do you think about this? In this article from 2015 they briefly speak of the U.S. scientists doing experiments on Chinese bats which resulted in creating a potentially deadly virus hybrid
https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787
Just to be clear, I blame neither country for what’s going on now, I don’t know the essence of their games, but it bothers me that in case of this virus in particular many people assume it’s Chinese or made by them... what if it’s not