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Yasheng Huang is Epoch Foundation Professor in Chinese economy and business and professor of global economics and management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. A member of the MIT Taskforce on the Work of the Future, he is currently conducting research on food safety in China and writing a book on a history of state capacity of China.
Some have praised China's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but its suppression of information helped cause the problem in the first place.
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