- Professor Daniel Drazner of the Fletcher School joined George P. Shultz, Condoleezza Rice, Admiral Gary Roughead (USN – Ret.), and former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, among others, for a day-long conversation “China’s Evolving Military and the Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy.” He took to the pages of ForeignPolicy.com to share “What I learned about Sino-American relations yesterday [at the Hoover Institution].”
- Let the General election begin! Bill Whalen analyzes the politics of the President’s new position on gay marriage on KQED’s (San Francisco public radio) Forum with Michael Krasny.
- Hoover fellows take over the WSJ‘s Op-Ed page and have a few things to say about European political economy – Robert J. Barro here and Josef Joffe here.
- Other happenings on the Continent – a look at the critical problems of Russian state companies by economist and Soviet & Russian specialist Paul Gregory.
- Ying Ma on the saga of another Chinese dissident, writer Yu Jie, who refers to himself as “a nerd who stutters,” and the glimpse his story provides into the Chinese authoritarian state.
- And hearty congratulations to Hoover Senior Fellow John Taylor, who won the Hayek Award for his book First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring American Prosperity.
