Select Op-eds/Media

August 9, 2024 "Would Trump Escalate the US-China Trade War?" Project Syndicate.

May 6, 2024 "What TikTok Got Wrong About America" Project Syndicate

March 18, 2024 "The Truth About US Immigration" Project Syndicate.

February 2, 2024 "China's Economy: How worried should we be?" BBC News World Service The Real Story.

January 2, 2024 "Missouri governor bans Chinese and Russian companies from buying land near military sites" NBC.
 
December 20, 2023 "Why are so many young Chinese depressed?" Project Syndicate.

November 17, 2023 "Zero-COVID’s Long Tail" Project Syndicate.

October 15, 2023 "China, chickens and fire" Australian Broadcasting Corporation

October 8, 2023 "How China's Economy is Failing its Young People" Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

September 25, 2023 "Is Chinese Youth Unemployment As Bad As It Looks?" Project Syndicate.

September 13, 2023 "China's weakening economy in two Indicators" NPR Planet Money.

August 30, 2023 "Young, "spoiled and miserable" in China" NPR The Indicator from Planet Money.

July 18, 2023 "Youth Unemployment and China’s Economic Future" Project Syndicate.

May 25, 2023 "China's Youth Unemployment Problem" Project Syndicate.

April 27, 2023 " Why is America so afraid of China?" NPR World Affairs On Shifting Ground.

April 14, 2023 "Banning China from Owning US Farmland Will Achieve Nothing" Project Syndicate.

January 27, 2023 "To all the Econ papers I've loved before" NPR Planet Money.

January 5, 2023 "China's Brutal COVID Winter" Project Syndicate.

December 1, 2022 "Who Taught China's youth to Protest?" Bloomberg

December 3, 2022 "China's Mass Protest Movement: Why it Began and Where it Might Lead" NPR KQED On Point.

December 9, 2022 "What China’s Zero-COVID Drama Foreshadows" Project Syndicate.

November 21,2022 "Post-War Reconstruction Is a Good Investment" Project Syndicate.

October 10, 2022 "How Xi Jinping Can Strengthen the Chinese Economy" Project Syndicate.

August 19, 2022 "The Food Crisis is Bigger Than Ukraine" English Project Syndicate.

July 10, 2022 "China's Great Wall of Public-Health Distrust" English Project Syndicate.

April 28, 2022 "What's the impact of the Shanghai lockdown?" BBC Briefing Room.

April 22, 2022 "What the Shanghai Lockdown Tells Us About China’s Future" Project Syndicate. English. April 25, 2022 The Globle and Mail reprint.
 
April 19, 2022 "China's `Zero-Covid' Crackdown Threatens Global Economy" Forbes

April 17,  2022 "The Complicated Relationship between China and Russia" Swedish Public Radio Swedish

April 13, 2022 "China will buy more gas from Russia" Swedish Public Radio. Swedish.

April 13, 2022 "What Is China’s COVID Endgame?" Project Syndicate. English.

April 14, 2022 The Globe and Mail Reprint.

April 6, 2022 "China’s $2.3 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Puts America’s to Shame" Bloomberg Businessweek Economics.

April 2, 2022 "The Best Way for China to Make Its Economy Sanctions-Proof" Bloomberg English

March 10, 2022 "Will Putin's War Slow China's Growth?" Project Syndicate English 

February 10, 2022 "The West Must Accept Reality in Ukraine" Project Syndicate English

February 4,  2022 "Special Broadcast: The Politics of the Olympics" NPR Civics 101 Audio

January 6, 2022 "Making the Most of the Beijing Winter Games" Project Syndicate English

December 7-9, 2021 "Building Sustainable Growth" FT The Global Board Room.
 
November 24, 2021 "What it will take to build world-class infrastructure in the U.S." NPR On Point Audio 

November 8, 2021 “The Case for Chinese Aid” English

October 29, 2021 "China's Real COVID Crisis is Yet to Come" Bloomberg  English

September 28, 2021 "Carbon Neutrality with Chinese Characteristics" Project Syndicate English 

September 7, 2021 "The West's Unspoken Failure in Afghanistan" Project Syndicate English

September 2, 2021 "Age of Economics" Video 

July 29, 2021 "Good Bad Olympic Nationalism" Project Syndicate English

July 9, 2021 "What Should Development Aid Do?" Project Syndicate English

July 5, 2021 "The Economic Fundamentals of Chinese Communism's Successes and Failures" Project Syndicate English

June 3, 2021 "China's Three Child Policy Won't Help" Project Syndicate  English

May 13, 2021 "China must embrace remote work" Project Syndicate English

April 30, 2021 "The Two Sides of Chinese GDP" Project Syndicate English

April 30, 2021 "A Tale of Two Famines" Broadstreet Post English 

April 7, 2021 "Rebuilding Social Trust in Post-COVID America" Project Syndicate English 

Select Talks

January 31, 2024 UCSD China Forum at the Council of Foreign Affairs
May 7, 2024 U.S. Chamber of Commerce Annual China Business Conference
June 19, 2024 Highground Dairy Global Diary Outlook Conference