Shades of 'Area 7' by Matthew Reilly there - although that's about somone deliberately trying to create a situation similar to your description and being stopped.
Area 7 Also has the Chinese creating a 'barbarian-killer' (read: non-chinese) virus, with south africans trying to modify it for blacks and a Crazy American General trying to destroy all the population centers north of the Mason-Dixon Line as effete and unamerican.
Matthew Relliey, for those who don't know is an new Aussie autthor that writes his books like an action block buster on steroids... hard to explain... go see at www.matthewreilly.com
Area 7 Also has the Chinese creating a 'barbarian-killer' (read: non-chinese) virus, with south africans trying to modify it for blacks and a Crazy American General trying to destroy all the population centers north of the Mason-Dixon Line as effete and unamerican.
Matthew Relliey, for those who don't know is an new Aussie autthor that writes his books like an action block buster on steroids... hard to explain... go see at www.matthewreilly.com