Ayelet Berman was recently (28 February 2023) interviewed by TIME Magazine.

“The problem, says Ayelet Berman, who leads the Global Health Law and Governance Program at National University of Singapore’s Center for International Law, is that in the existing political climate, China has nothing to gain from being more transparent. And that sets a dangerous precedent. Berman says that inquiries and research on future outbreaks may be similarly hampered by origin countries’ fears of facing economic and social backlash.“All of the other outbreaks over the years—if you think about Zika, MERS-CoV, SARS-CoV-1, Ebola—there wasn’t really any problem to investigate the origin because the countries collaborated,” Berman said. That isn’t the case anymore. “It’s a big problem that needs to be addressed.”

Read the article here https://time.com/6258960/covid-19-origins-lab-leak-china-politics/