[inaudible conversations] good morning, everyone, welcome to Carnegie Endowment for international peace. I think ive known just about everyone in the room one way or another and ill keep the introductions short. I handle the program here and its my opportunity on behalf of carnegie today to host a pair of panels that includes some of the people i admire the most in the field of contemporary china studies. We at carnegie and i think throughout the chinawatching community have had tremendous admiration for the leadership and the protection of the china leadership monitor, which is organized by professor alice miller at the Hoover Institution at stanford university. They have established a terrific record for hearing the facts as opposed to trends, feelings, things like that. So, whenever you want to touch base with reality i like to go online to the china leadership monitor and do precisely there. Today well give you a sample of writings in form of presentations working ahead in the 19th
Im grateful to doug paul for agreeing to host and set this thing up and the Carnegie Institution and alex taylor after all his logistical support. Im grateful also to michael and to alan for their contributions to the monitor from very early in its inception and im sorry that james was pulled away. He is a founding contributor still writes for us and would have been the guy to talk about the reconfer racing reconfigure racing. And im grateful to joe and jessica for agreeing to do these presentations. We hope to have barry here who has been a founding contributor on the chinese economy, but barry has back loaded his class to end of the week and kind rearrange this schedule so i regret he wasnt able to come. Im sure Everybody Knows who joe is. Professor at International Relations and politics at boston university. He is founding contributor to the china leadership monitor, retired from our roster, i dont know, couple years ago we were arguing about when that was walking over here. And im
Dont forget ill be asleep during my presentation, too. Can i sleep too, by prior arrangement . Good morning, everybody, thanks for coming. Im ellis miller and i play rhythm guitar at the Hoover Institution and im the leader of the china leadership monitor. Im grateful to doug paul for agreeing to host and set this thing up and to the Carnegie Institution and alex taylor for all his logistical support. Im grateful to michael and to allen for their contributions to the monitor from very early in its inception. And im sorry that james got pulled away. He was a founding contributor and still rights for us. He would have been the guy to talk about the reconfiguration of the Central Military commission coming out of the congress. We hope to have barry notten he who has been a primary contributor. But barry has backloaded his classes to the end of the week and couldnt rearrange his schedule to come. Im sure Everybody Knows who joe f f fusmith is. Hes a founding contributor to the china leader
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Home around 11 00 this morning. Shes known to spent time in Golden Gate Park and at ocean beach. Thank you for joining us. Our other top story former president obama is here in the bay area. The timing of his visit comes at a crushed time. Sergio quintana is live at the it ma netta airport with the story. Reporter the former president just touched down here at san jose ma netta international airport. He got into a motorcade, driven off to an undisclosed location. This is the first visit to the Silicon Valley since he left the white house. He did not come out to answer any questions. We just saw his motorcade drive out of the airport. He just flew into san jose after spending the day with Warren Buffett in omaha. That was also a pretty lowkey affair. They shared lunch at a country club and there were no comments to local media. As president , obama often visited the bay area for multiple fundraising events. This weekend is also one of his first public sightings since current President T