Wider social contribution (B)

2010.04～2011.03

(1) Media activities

• My research paper “How the iPhone widens the US trade deficit with the PRC” (with Neal Detert) has caught great attentions of global media.

①Print media

• Interviewed by China Science and Technology Daily. The interview “how the Sino-US trade imbalance was distorted” was published on Jan 13, 2011;
• On Dec. 16, 2010, The Wall Street Journal published a full page article “Sum of iPhone parts: trade distortion” to report the research;
• On Jan. 10, 2011, the Wall Street Journal publish an editorial article “The $6.50 Trade War” by using the research results of the paper;
• On Jan. 11, 2011, the Time published an article “Is the iPhone bad for American Economy” to discuss the paper;
• On Jan. 18, 2011, Forbes published an article “Don’t be Fooled by Misleading US-China Trade Data” to discuss the iPhone paper;
• On Jan. 24, 2011, the WTO Chief Pascal Lamy published an article“ ‘Made in China’ tells us little about global trade” in Financial Time and cited the iPhone paper;
• On Feb. 10, 2011, Handelsblatt-a leading business newspaper in Germany published an article “ The Strange Logic of the Global iPhone Economy” to discuss the iPhone paper;
• On March 8, 2011, Foreign Policy published an article “Why isn’t the iPhone made in America” to follow up the iPhone paper;

② Broadcast media

• Interviewed by the National Public Radio of the US. The program was named “How the iPhone figures the US-China Trade Gap” and broadcasted on Jan. 18, 2011.

(2) Public lectures and discussion meetings

• Guest Speaker of Japan Foreign Correspondents Club on Asian Policy recommendation to the G-20 meeting.