Hear in Taiwan

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Taiwan is the latest in a series of countries to launch a ‘gastro-diplomacy’ campaign, which means using food to spread awareness of culture. The drive seeks to promote understanding of Taiwanese culture via such local cuisine as stinky tofu and sea-salt lattes. To learn more about gastro-diplomacy, I spoke to Mr. Paul Rockower, a research fellow at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy currently investigating Taiwan’s public diplomacy. Check out our interview on this week’s ‘Soft Power’ at http://english.rti.org.tw/English/special/plus/index.aspx.