That's an opinion piece, why "he" thinks the NIH would fund the lab. The 3.7 million dollars went to EcoHealth Alliance and they doled out the money to various organizations, including those researching bat corona viruses like the Wuhan lab. EcoHealth Alliance distributed the grant money to several different countries, China was only one of them.

They also continued to receive grants under the Trump administration, again they gave the money out globally not the NIH.