The key to Covid's origin lies in Beijing, not Wuhan

There's one entity that is best poised to answer one of the most important scientific questions of our time: How did the Covid-19 pandemic originate? And it's not the virologists scouring genetic data from live animal wet markets in search of a zoonotic spillover, nor is it the lab leak proponents debating furin cleavage sites and battling over translations of old emails. It's the Chinese government — and that, more than any other fact, is why it looks increasingly unlikely that we'll ever find an answer that all parties can agree on to the question of what caused the worst…