There's a big advantage in raising capital... he would literally have people throw money at him with just a slick presentation.
But the problem is that he would be the only non-Chinese speaker in a room full of Chinese investors. Also IP protection is fairly weak over there. Ah, the promise of riches.
One of the thing is that Western scientists takes the Wuhan lab's claims at face value, and builds their arguments based on Western standards. The BSL4 level has people claiming the lab is more like a dentist's office, which is troubling to hear.
Anyone following it for the past year would know there's too many photos of the Wuhan scientists handling the bats without gloves [1] and their hands covered with rashes from getting bitten by bats.
Also there's promotional videos [3][4] of the Wuhan scientists taking samples from an actual bat cave. Of course there would be transmission if things are done so shoddily.
Not to mention a Chinese researcher turned whistleblower wrote several papers on how the virus is manufactured in a lab setting. Obviously the bar to verify her claims is very high, as most people don't have the technical background to even read through her papers, but it shouldn't be that easily dismissed or brushed aside by experts [5][6]. An analogy is that even before arriving at the concentration camps, the Allies didn't know how horrible things were and had to video tape the liberation of the Jews as their conditions are just incomprehensible to people back at home.
More like the case of the Zoom employees are members of the Communism Party and decided to interfere to raise their profiles in the party. The alternative would be not taking action and be considered "enabling" the Tienanmen Square memorial to take place and obviously face punishment.
"Have you been to Xinjiang yourself? You know, Xinjiang is regarded as the most beautiful place in (China)"
- quote from the China Ambassador to UK when asked why Uyghur Muslims were hooded and loaded onto trains.
An average American has no reason to hate on China, but it doesn't mean we can't stand up for the ethnic groups that are being oppressed within China's borders. The congressional testimonies by the Uyghurs refugees is truly terrifying.
Doing business with China literally means you are in support of their government's actions. T-shirts, medical masks, a regular bottle of ketchup, its all made from slave labor in Xinjiang.
But the problem is that he would be the only non-Chinese speaker in a room full of Chinese investors. Also IP protection is fairly weak over there. Ah, the promise of riches.