How Coca-Cola shapes health policy in China

In recent decades, as rates of obesity have soared around the world, beverage giant Coca-Cola and its industry peers have sought to insulate themselves from regulatory interventions by investing in corporate “product defence” science. This science contends that it is a lack of exercise – not sugary drinks and junk food – driving the problem. Whilst this science has been increasingly challenged and exposed in the United States, it continues to prevail in China, where obesity rates have skyrocketed.

Guest: Susan Greenhalgh, anthropologist at Harvard University and author of Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola