All significant Nations keep tabs on developments in "Germ/Chemical Warfare" in case some hostile arseholes get some sort of research break and use it. So the micro spending the US did with aim of tracking China's activity was a nothing-burger in terms of paying for research they were aware of from US work. Unfortunately it did not stop the CCP releasing Covid19 on the world as part of their "non-shooting war on the West" which has turned out to be a brilliant tactic as the West bungled their responce and WHO which should have been on top of things was well compromised by the Sino's.
