Media/Policy Engagement
Media Expertise: East Asian Affairs, Chinese Politics, Regulatory Failure (Food Safety, Aviation, Fisheries, Environment, Financial)
Policy Papers
2017. “Meeting China’s Food Safety Challenge.” Paulson Institute Policy Memorandum: 1-37.
Quoted in the News
“China cooking oil scandal exposes food safety problem.” DW. 15 July 2024.
“China sidelines its once venerated central bank.” FT. 25 December 2023.
“What China’s Powerful Regulator Means for PBOC.” Bloomberg. 7 March 2023.
“Hong Kong Exodus may threaten city’s global financial status.” VOA. 19 August 2022.
"Anything Goes in China's Food Safety System," New York Times, 24 July 2014
"China distillers accused of lacing baijiu with viagra," The Financial Times, 3 August 2015
"Food safety scandals bring reality check to chinese dream," ChinaFile, 23 May 2013
"FDA moving too slowly to promote private inspections," Food Safety News, 6 September 2013
TV Interviews
“China Food Safety Scandal.” East Asia Tonight. Channel News Asia, 15 July 2024 ( @28 minute)
“Chinese government moving swiftly with food safety reforms.” CNBC, 13 August 2018
“How China’s swine fever epidemic turned into a global crisis.” Quartz, 9 October 2019
Media Interviews
“China’s Policy Failures.” Asterisk Magazine. February 2024.
"Yasuda takes the pulse of food safety regulation," Southern Weekly, 4 June 2015
"China's urban sprawl raises key question: can it feed itself," The Guardian, 16 February 2015
"China's top-down food safety system is failing," China Dialogue, 24 September 2013