Mises Wire
Author:
N. Joseph Potts
Online Publish Date:
Zheng Xiaoyu, China’s former FDA chief, was executed recently for taking bribes and allowing lethally tainted pharmaceuticals to be sold to his countrymen. Thus far, ten fatalities have been identified in the imbroglio. Zheng makes it eleven. Ironically, and most instructively, Zheng was, 15 to 20 years ago, the zealous reformer who successfully