The U.S. government knew the 9/11 attacks would happen, but did not take strong measures to prevent them. They allowed the attacks to occur in order to create a pretext for war. The attackers, on the other hand, truly wanted to hurt ordinary Americans even if it played into the hands of the ruling class.

The Chinese, despite the claims of the WSWS, have imperialist designs of their own. Lenin argued that Russia had imperialist motives for defending Serbia against Austria-Hungary during the first world war. He argued this proved true regardless of the source of capital for capitalist development. In fact, he specifically proved that much of the capital came from France. The same argument holds under current conditions, when China received trillions of U.S. dollars in foreign direct investment plus trade deficits from the U.S.

The fact remains that China attracted capital by making itself attractive. This means that the Chinese state made itself the best servant of capital, while abandoning its supposed ideology of uniting the workers of the world.

Regardless of these facts, American Patriots serving in secret weapons programs of the U.S. government like Predict could still harbor hate for the Communist people ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. These elements, biological weapons scientists and others, a parallel to the Mujahideen financed by the CIA only to turn into Al Qaeda, could unleash a virus on China believing that an attack on China’s people would punish them for their athiesm and their desire for a dictatorship of the world proletariat to redistribute the world’s wealth. We cannot share common ground with them.

Rather than a threat to China’s elite, this biological attack would bring about an opportunity for China to take the offensive in world affairs. They could target any country that does not show unity under these difficult circumstances. They could invoke the virus to impose a lockdown while they hunt dissidents and torture the people. The virus especially helped the Chinese government in its crack-down on Hong Kong’s confused independence movement.

How much the Chinese government knew and when has come under scrutiny in the mainstream media, most recently the major U.S. paper USA Today. The most likely scenario appears to have occured through the intervention of U.S. soldiers, spies, or secret agents that forced a leak in China’s only Level 4 Virology laboratory in Wuhan. These must have acted to some degree independently of the U.S. government, perhaps under the influence of extremist groups in the U.S. or Europe. This then allowed China to react by creating worldwide shortages of basic medical equipment and medications while flying 20,000 people a day into the U.S.

The end has not yet arrived, and it can rightly be said the Coronavirus has ended the Project for a New American Century while forming the basis for a shift in capitalist military exploits from American interests to Chinese interests. This same shift occured prior to World War I as capitalist development or hope for imperialist mass destruction shifted from the French and British empires to the trailing German nation attempting to catch up to the Allies in colonial possessions.

The WSWS must urgently change its position, characterizing Chinese economic and military expansion as imperialist, no different from the imperialist expansion of Russia attempted in World War I. Lenin worked against the Social Democratic leaders of the day who sought to prioritize national unity over international unity and the defense of the party bureaucracy over opposition to imperialist war. He broke the Bolsheviks from the Second International and created a way for the revolution to take the power from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Those “Trotskyists” who deny any imperialist motives exist for China and Russia have not understood Trotsky’s Theory of the Permanent Revolution or Lenin’s Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism. They threaten to break the ICFI from the Marxist positions proven true by the October Revolution that these real socialists led.