I can't think of any scenario in which deliberately tanking the world's economy makes economic sense.
That is encouraging. we are told to be simple with regards to the evil schemes of Satan.
Are you familiar with Nero? He wanted to buy some property, the people didn't want to sell it so he started a fire and then kept the fire department from putting it out. After the fire he was able to buy the land at a discount.
Also who creates a bio weapon that only kills 1% of its victims?. .
No one releases a bioweapon unless they have the cure. That is the rule. Second all warfare realizes it is better to wound the enemy than to kill him. If you are wounded it takes another soldier off the battlefield to get you to a hospital and then it takes money and manpower to heal you.
The pandemic set the world on fire. That has set China's economy on fire. All the countries that they have loaned money to for the belt and road initiative are going bankrupt. Their real estate bubble is bursting and their banks are collapsing. China was on the verge of becoming the world superpower and the pandemic is about to obliterate that. Also, if China had released this why would they release it in China? So China being framed is a more plausible theory.I don't think China released it on purpose or what they did do was lie until it was too late to do anything about it.