Recently, a leaked recording of a conversation with Harvard scholar Huang Wansheng in January at a private gathering in China circulated on the internet. Surprisingly, Huang revealed that Beijing’s real intention in adopting the Zero-COVID policy is to help the regime’s elite interest groups make a lot of money. He also said that China lags far behind the United States in 5G, quantum computing, and gene technology. Since 1997, Huang has been a senior assistant to Professor Tu Weiming, a Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow of Asia Center at Harvard University. According to Huang, in July 2020, six months after the outbreak of the pandemic, Beijing’s top officials purchased a one-way ticket for him that cost 170,000 yuan (about $27,000) and urgently invited him back to China to lead a project named “Pandemic Control Using Science and Technology,” which is directly under the command of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Behind …