Zweig

“This is a harsh but probably necessary strategy to re-establish control over an underregulated sector,” David Zweig, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, said of the death-sentence verdict. […] Mr. Zweig at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, however, says the sentences handed down recently are more aimed at the domestic audience, which is at the greatest risk of being harmed by counterfeit or substandard drugs made in China.

2007 July 7, David Barboza, “China Sentences Official to Death for Corruption”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Feb 2021