The convergence of various factors can sometimes lead to unexpected outcomes. The “unveiling” of Deepseek, a Chinese AI, has significant implications for US companies that had invested heavily in monopolies and expensive structures. Meanwhile, the US lags behind China in most technological development areas, a fact that is likely well-known in the US.
One of the few areas where the US still leads is in genetics, with China and Germany closely following, according to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s 2024 report.
This is also a good time to revisit the topic of COVID-19. I will propose a hypothesis that, while necessarily vague, seems to fill some of the gaps in the narrative.
First, the established facts: the likelihood is high that the virus originated from a US laboratory in Wuhan. China’s initial response was likely triggered by a biowarfare attack, such as the African Swine Fever, in the same year. However, the Western world followed a pre-existing pandemic plan, which ultimately led to the distribution of a genetically modified substance, dubbed a vaccine, but which, by all criteria, was not a vaccine and had significant side effects.
It is a fact that the entire process was politically manipulated and marred by bribery (such as the Pfizer SMS affair, involving von der Leyen). This has led to a plethora of hypotheses. I will add one more.
What if the real goal was not to spread a virus, but to achieve a strategic objective? Independent of the question of whether the initial release in China was an accident or a deliberate act, there is a point at which a geopolitical incentive existed. The technological advantage in this area is largely useless as long as it is not applicable in the most profitable areas. A pharmaceutical application is highly profitable, but the regular approval process is long, costly and limited by the need for human trials, which in turn limit the amount of verifiable data. And the time it takes to become usable could be enough for the advantage to be lost. Is it unimaginable that, planned or opportunistic, the appearance of a suitable virus set in motion plans to establish the entire untested technology, using the pandemic as a cover and collect the necessary data in a large-scale experiment?
Considering the efforts to secure the – now discredited – dominance in the AI field and, at the same time, ensure a favorable development of the technology structure for US monopolies, with large data centers requiring much energy and expensive chips, it is possible to see a connection between the energy crisis in the EU and the US efforts to secure a technological advantage.
Let us assume that the US had decided to secure the genetic technology advantage by any means necessary. And it is possible to connect this to the pandemic narrative. Build pressure in society, create panic and then begin the test phase with millions of unwilling test subjects. And then something goes wrong – it was known that the product was unrefined and had side effects, but it turned out to be worse than expected. So the pressure had to be increased further to prevent a public reaction to the field test. However, the situation was critical enough that the real results of this test were ultimately not recorded, as their documentation and, above all, their disclosure would have not only ruined the project but also dozens of governments.
This would at least partially explain the willingness of Western governments to play along. It was about securing a geopolitical advantage, the protection of a technological advantage, regardless of the cost. That the end result was not even useful data, as it had to be heavily censored and distorted, reminds one of other developments. The Western expectations regarding the Ukraine conflict, for example, which often only had a limited connection to reality. Disintegrating and devouring Russia? That did not work out.