Skeptics Question if Biden’s New Science Agency is a Breakthrough or More Bureaucracy The proposed Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health aims to deliver breakthrough treatments for diseases. But the way Biden would make “ARPA-H” and its $6.5 billion budget part of the sprawling National Institutes of Health is raising concern within the research community and in Congress about whether it will bring a new approach to old problems or become a duplicative bureaucracy. Politico, Forbes China Fires Back at Biden with Conspiracy Theories About Maryland Lab Asked at a May 27 press conference about the U.S. investigation into a possible virus leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian quickly changed the subject. “What secrets are hidden in the suspicion-shrouded Fort Detrick and the over 200 U.S. biolabs all over the world?” Since then, Chinese diplomats and government officials have repeatedly returned to this focus of suspicion on Fort Detrick. Foreign Policy