Not chinese biologists . Or Mexican biologists for all that matters (I'm from Mexico). I mean, there's a lot of countries capable of playing with viruses which dont have real practical controls.
You might argue that these achieve little in practice, and due to corruption amount to nothing more than fig leafs. But that doesn't invalidate the argument because AI researchers don't even wear that much!
AI is at the "hire and fire until they get a sycophant" stage in the development of proper ethical review methods.