WTF! Why in hell would we have a bioweapons lab in Ukraine? And why in hell would we have one in China? The leftist scum need to answer questions.
To circumvent US laws
So now laws matter?
Plausible deniability if things get found and a lot of NIMBY. You set up your chrome plating facility in the ghetto where people aren't going to notice funny tasting water, not in the burbs where people with money can complain. That is to say - if it leaks and goes bad - it does so "over there" not "over here".
This can't make sense to you. Set the lab up on Russia's borders, filled w the closest held secrets in research?
We are building a bunch of these labs here in the US...
Security is pretty tight.