It really depends on who you ask, people who would get in trouble for funding gain of function research say no, but many independent virologists say that we did indeed fund gain of function research in China.

The link you provided is talking about funding the pandemic virus, which isn't what the OP stated. Here's another article from factcheck.org that states we very likely did fund gain of function research:

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/05/the-wuhan-lab-and-the-gain-of-function-disagreement/

Go to the last 2 sections on gain of function and the ecohealth grant.

Everyone has been working with China for years. It was the right thing to do when China was opening up and giving more rights to it's citizens. Unfortunately Xi came along and put a stop to all that and now it's hard to divest from China.

I'm curios, joint research with the military alone isn't a bad thing. Joint research with China ain't a bad thing either. But joint research with the "Chinese Military" is, however, problematic to say the least. Since it's behind a paywall, I have no idea what to expect. Can someone elaborate?

In your dreams babyyyy yeeeeeehaw 🤠🤠🫰 i meeeaaaan what were sweden and finland doing all these years 🤣 now they are so hasty about getting into nato. 💀 Hope they manage it 🥰🥰

Iran doesn't have a navy to cut off shipping in the Persian gulf, so that shouldn't be an issue. Torpedo boats and mines may play a larger issue but we dealt with that before.

Lmao

> Besides there is a small chance that Putin does something crazy like attack Gotland which seriously threatens Finland aswell.

... In which case it would be better if Finland was in NATO.

ING, Philips also are still operating in Russia!

Why are you not surprised?

Just a feature of capitalism and greed.

There isn't. It's just a feature of capitalism. You can spend money to bypass a lot of inconveniences.

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I think I remember reading about that on Hunter Biden's laptop /s

Lol this is so naive of geo-politics and how Chinese espionage works.

From investopedia: >There is some grey area here. For example, a professional short-seller may accumulate a short position and then publicize the reasons for shorting the stock. This seems perilously close to a short-seller's version of a pump-and-dump scheme, in which a speculator hypes (or bashes) an investment for personal gain.

>There is a distinction, however. The short-seller in this example reveals the personal financial stake at the time of the recommendation. And, the information conveyed by the short-seller reflects a genuine fact-based view of the outlook of the stock shorted rather than a falsehood intended to mislead.

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lol cry more then.

If you're gonna just argue without reading a single comment, I'm not gonna waste any more time on you. Have a good day or night or whatever.

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Sounds like greed to me. That's just a feature of capitalism...

When you have the resources of nation states, you can easily make shell companies to buy whatever you want.

Just look at how the US bought most of the titanium used for the SR71 blackbird from Russia lol.

That would be wildly uneducated, but that's fair and to each their own. Or Canada could accept international law and not try to fuck over their allies in the US and Europe with both declaring the NW Passage as a shipping route AND denying it's an international strait for shipping, in a blatantly illegal move to tax all shipping traversing those waters, where the most frequent users would be the US and Europe. It's as fucking moronic as China's claims in the South China Sea, or if Mexico demanded to tax all ships who entered the Gulf of Mexico...

Or we can falsely cry wolf and pretend Canada is being bullied. That works too I guess?

Israel is a girl that has her sugar daddy (US) on one side, and her lover (Russia) she has a hot and cold relationship with.

Both should dump that hoe.

Quantum Realm

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My brother in Christ...