Beijing has limited independent access to information on Covid-19’s origin, much as it silenced scientists and journalists who raised doubts about the official story last year. The report’s publication was repeatedly delayed, as both sides negotiated a report that is more political than scientific.
The irony in all of this report and investigation meddling is that it gives further credibility to the theory that mismanagement at one of the Wuhan scientific labs is the probable source.
Beijing may be in denial, but ordinary people around the world see clearly that the emperor has no clothes.