Now that I've thought about it, though. Picking central China for the kind of lab they have, far away from a bat's natural habitat, is actually pretty smart. Because if a virus did leak, you're unlikely to have it tearing through entire wild bat colonies. Too bad there wasn't a way to do the same with the case of a human host.
When it comes to the question of why any lab would play around with dangerous viruses so much, though, I guess I could see the "For Prevention" side of the argument. However, big militaries like in the US have been up to real Umbrella Corporation-style shit in the past, and that's just from the tip of the iceberg we have in the form of declassified documents. I have little doubt that biological warfare is on both China and America's radar, along with Russia and probably any other country with a big enough military. Especially with the mentality of, "Well they're probably doing it, so we need to be able to do it harder/protect against it."
The real question is to what degree are things being done, and whether superviruses are outright being made with the specific intent as a weapon. I'm pretty sure that would violate the Geneva Conventions harder than Genghis Khan violated the planet's women, but y'know...it really wouldn't be the first time a war crime was committed. Like any atrocity, keep it under wraps and it's no harm no fowl for them. With all that being said, just like the lab leak theory itself, we can't truly discern things either way without hard evidence, which is being withheld at this time.