Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the WorldIn March 2020, liberal democracy ground to a sudden stop. Like the Reichstag Fire of 1933, historians may never know how SARS CoV 2 came about. For scientists, exploring its origins would be a rewarding endeavor if it weren't precluded by an immovable force the jackboot of Xi Jinping's Chinese Communist Party. But while intelligence agencies spent months investigating the virus's origins, the world employed an unprecedented response that proved far