Probably means that certain parts of the US government are alleged to have funded GOF research in Wuhan because such research was banned in the US. Whether or n

Probably means that certain parts of the US government are alleged to have funded GOF research in Wuhan because such research was banned in the US. Whether or not that GOF research created SARS-CoV-2 is far from definitive. Regardless of the answer to that question, the main question really should be if the US should fund research elsewhere that has been banned in the US if there's a realistic chance that the product of such research can end up leaking back to the US where it was banned for safety reasons.