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In his first official visit to California, Ryszard Schnepf, the Polish ambassador to the United States, met with Hoover fellows on Monday, March 25, 2013. Hosted by John Raisian, the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution, and Hoover Board of Overseer member and Polish honorary consul general Tad Taube, the ambassador spent the afternoon at Hoover.

Having won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, serving as dean of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Harvard, studying as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, and now teaching at NYU’s Stern School of Business, one would think that Hoover Institution senior fellow Michael Spence would sit back a bit. On the contrary, Spence is closely examining the transition of the Chinese economy (the world’s second largest) and its worldwide implications.

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Ambassador Pu-tsung King, representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States (TECRO) and Vice Mayor of Taipei from 2002 to 2006, visited the Hoover Institution and toured its modern China collections on Friday, February 15, 2013. He was accompanied by Bruce Fuh, director-general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco, Jay Wong and Daniel K.Y. Lin, who are also directors of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in San Francisco. David Brady, deputy director of the Hoover Institution and acting director of the Hoover Library and Archives, along with Linda Bernard, deputy archivist of the Hoover Archives, greeted King.

On Wednesday, January 23, Hoover fellow Larry Diamond spoke with Stanford students about promoting democracy in the Middle East, Burma/Myanmar, and Mongolia and about US foreign policy in Obama’s second term. (52:39)