I took a further look at that Asia Times article. The first paragraph states that the article is based on something from the Daily Mail tabloid, and a subsequent link goes to a Fox News interview with Matt Gaetz!!!Virologists routinely mutate infectious viruses, or clones with viral segments, which is often necessary to understand how these viruses work. Not all such experiments qualify as restricted GOF experiments, and critics do not seem to understand this.
References to newspaper articles is not sufficient as "proof" for such serious accusations.
None of this is evidence. Show a serious connection with facts and dates derived from appropriate official documents.