https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/text-letter-speaker-house-representatives-president-senate-011321/
"including by developing and deploying weapons of mass destruction"
They are talking about COVID being DEPLOYED as a weapon of mass destruction. China is now an enemy and ANYONE - civilian or incumbent - who aided them will be considered an enemy combatant.
Remember the Kavanaugh/Graham exchange at his confirmation hearing: "…I believe a couple [of the civilian enemy combatants] were executed"
Kavanaugh: "yeah".