What are the national security concerns regarding U.S. funding of gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China?

Representative Brad Wenstrup highlights significant national security risks associated with U.S. funding of deadly virus research in China, particularly at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. He emphasizes that China has an established bioweapons program and has even published literature in 2015 about using coronaviruses as bioweapons, making it problematic to conduct dangerous research in an adversarial nation's facilities. The core concern is that American taxpayer money is potentially supporting gain-of-function research that creates deadly viruses in laboratories operated by a strategic adversary, without adequate oversight from the U.S. intelligence community to assess and prevent these national security risks.