How did Coca-Cola manage to influence China’s health policies around obesity? In our latest Fairbank Center: On Books discussion, Susan Greenhalgh, John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society Emerita, answers with insights from her new book, Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola. In her telling, Coca-Cola persuaded Americans that exercise, not diet, is the fix for obesity—and then did the same in a China bent on learning from the West, hungry for its science, its capitalism, and its fast food.