Media/Policy Engagement

Media Expertise: East Asian Affairs, Chinese Politics, Regulatory Failure (Food Safety, Aviation, Fisheries, Environment, Financial)

Policy Papers

2023. “Necessary Fictions: The CSRC’s Stock Market Philosophy and its Implications for US-China Engagement.” In Myers, Lucas, ed. Essays on China and US Policy. Wilson Center.

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.

“Ten years after China’s infant milk tragedy, parents still won’t trust their babies to local formula,” Quartz, 16 July 2018.

"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

Podcasts

“Stock Markets with Authoritarian Characteristics.” Pekingology on Chinese Politics. CSIS. February 2021

"Is Xi Jinping Changing China’s Course? Reforms Under the New Leadership in Beijing," Foreign Policy Research Institute Podcast, March 2014