The intelligence agencies may eventually produce reports that seem to “back” Trump. The U.S. will keep demanding access to Chinese high security research laboratories, though we would never allow China (or Russia) to observe many of our own.
Under Bush U.S. intelligence agencies were browbeaten to hyping “WMD” even though they knew better and resisted at first. Granted Trump’s Pompeo is not so powerful as was Baby Bush’s Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Bolton with their added neo-liberal warmonger friends among Democrats. Yet today there is a powerful bipartisan movement toward taking a harder line with China, which has all but replaced Islamic “terrorists” as our new “boogie man.” In China too, nationalist anti-American sentiment is rising. It is crucial to slow and reverse the new Cold War with China. That doesn’t mean holding back from criticism when justified, especially when it can also be made use of in advancing democratic opposition in China. But making completely unproven charges must be absolutely avoided. It will only poison the atmosphere and make cooperation in crucial public health areas impossible.