Political scientist Ang Yuen Yuen concludes that given time and circumstance, there is a much higher political price to pay for Covid-19 in the 2020s compared to SARs in the 2000s.
Ang Yuen Yuen
Political Scientist
Yuen Yuen Ang is an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for “high-caliber scholarship on the most pressing issues of our times," and a professor of political science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. On China, her expertise lies in the politics of development, adaptive governance, and China’s rising global role. She is the author of How China Escaped the Poverty Trap, and the forthcoming (May 2020) China’s Gilded Age: the Paradox of Economic Boom & Vast Corruption. For more background, visit https://sites.lsa.umich.