While the world is in the midst of this coronavirus outbreak, few are talking about accountability. There isn’t even a consensus on what to call it.

Early on, CNN and NBC referred to it as “China Flu” or “Wuhan Flu,” until someone warned this could be a racial slur. In horror, those news networks realized they had walked into their own identity politics trap and had been “hoisted by their own petard.”

So, those same reporters brazenly began calling Mr. Trump a racist for repeating the same terminology ? as Fox News host Tucker Carlson has since reminded them.

The Chinese government’s view is that, although the flu virus may have started in Wuhan, this doesn’t mean it was “made in China.” This was then ramped up by a surprisingly undiplomatic claim from within the Chinese foreign ministry that the virus was created by the U.S. Army.

In contrast, some very brave scientists at the South China University of Technology claimed it escaped from a disease research laboratory in Wuhan city after one of the workers there got infected.

But there could be an altogether different reason for China wanting to distance itself from owning the virus.

In America, BP was forced to pay around $65 billion in compensation after it was found guilty of negligence for the Deepwater Horizon disaster of 2010.

Volkswagen has already paid around $30 billion around the world for cheating on emissions tests and that figure is set to grow substantially due to claims now being heard in Germany.