CFR Fellows’ Book Launch Series Guest Event With Yanzhong Huang

Yanzhong Huang discusses his new book, Toxic Politics: China’s Environmental Health Crisis and Its Challenge to the Chinese State. Environmental degradation in China has taken a heavy toll not only on public health, but also on Chinese society, the economy, and the legitimacy of the party-state. Toxic Politics connects the limited success of China’s pollution control to pathologies inherent in the institutional structure of the Chinese party-state, revealing a political system that is remarkably resilient, but fundamentally flawed. Speaker Yanzhong Huang Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations; @YanzhongHuang Presider Richard N. Haass President, Council on Foreign Relations; Author, The World: A Brief…