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How Chummy Are Junk Food Giants and China’s Health Officials? They Share Offices

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“China’s fitness-is-best message, as it happens, has largely been the handiwork of Coca-Cola and other Western food and beverage giants, according to a pair of new studies that document how those companies have helped shape decades of Chinese science and public policy on obesity and diet-related illnesses like Type 2 diabetes and hypertension."

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Making China Safe for Coke: How Coca-Cola Shaped Obesity Science and Policy in China

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“Coke’s recipe for success in China relies on more than cultivating political relationships and strategic localisation of products and marketing. Through a complex web of institutional, financial, and personal links, Coke has been able to influence China’s health policies. … It has done this by leveraging the Chinese branch of an organisation it created to advance its interests around the world. The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), set up by a Coke executive 40 years ago in the U.S., is housed within the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a unit of the government health ministry.”

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