Professor Lawrence Lau is an economist, best known as former Vice Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and for his long academic career at Stanford University starting in 1966.

His new book, The COVID-19 Epidemic in China, is co-authored with Yanyan Xiong, and explores the experiences of one country and how it responded to a new virus. He speaks with James Chau, Editor-at-Large of China-US Focus.