TY - BOOK AU - Becker,Jasper Martin TI - Made in China : : Wuhan, covid and the quest for biotech supremacy / SN - 9781787384675 AV - TP 248.195 B395m 2021 PY - 2021/// CY - London : PB - Hurst & Company KW - Biotecnología KW - China KW - Pandemias KW - Aspectos sociales KW - COVID-19 KW - Innovaciones tecnológicas KW - Relaciones exteriores KW - Siglo XXI N1 - Bubonic Plague German Warfare The Astonishing Size Of The Soviet Biowarfare Programme Does China Have A Biowarfare Programme The Commercialisation Of China's Military Enterprises Made In China Plan Wuhan And The Pharma Industry Illumina And Crispr China's Biotechnology Race Bioethics And Gain Of Function Debate The Virus Hunters The Mysterious Sars Outbreak 2002-03 Going Bats In China The Strange Story Of France And Wuhan's Bs4-Lab Looking For A Gas Leak With A Lighted Match Secrecy Stopped China's Disease Control Centre From Doing Its Job 'Its All Fake': Confusion And Deception In Wuhan China And The World Health Organisation Panic And Dissent In Wuhan N2 - The coronavirus pandemic started in Wuhan, home to the leading lab studying the SARS virus and bats. Was that pure coincidence? This book explores what we know, and still don't know, about the origins of COVID-19, and how it was handled in China. We may never get all the answers, but much is already clear: China's record as the origin of earlier pandemics, and its struggle to bring contagious diseases under control; its history as both a victim of biological warfare and a developer of deadly bioweapons. When Covid broke out, Wuhan was building science parks to realise Beijing's ambitions in biotech research. Whoever achieves global leadership of the gene-editing industry stands to harvest great power and wealth. China has already challenged Western technological supremacy with 5G and in other industries. Yet this tiny, invisible virus has cruelly exposed a critical flaw in the Chinese political system: obsessive secrecy. The West wanted to trust the PRC, hoping that, as it prospered, it would become an open society. Made in China reveals how Beijing's leaders have betrayed that trust ER -