Education
He was educated at Wesleyan University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts and the University of Chicago, where he received an Master of Arts
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Career
He took office in March 2010. As Consul General, Young is responsible for the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions. He was the Director of the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto United States embassy of Taiwan in Taipei, from March 18, 2006 to July 3, 2009.
Ambassador Young was United States. Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic from 2003 to 2005.
Doctor Young was born in Washington District of Columbia and moved to Taiwan at age 12, where his father served as a military adviser to the Taiwanese army in Kaohsiung from 1963 to 1965. (1974) and Doctor of Philosophy (1980) in history.
Within the Department of State, he has served in the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs and the Office of Soviet Affairs. He has been the Director of the Office of Caucasus and Security Affairs, the Director of the Office of Caucasus and Central Asian Affairs, the Director of the Office of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh Affairs, and the Director of the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs.
His overseas assignments include: two tours in Moscow, a tour in Beijing, Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic, and Director of the Academy of Information Technology in Taipei, Taiwan.
He speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and Russian. As the United States. Consul General in Hong Kong, he also oversees Macau – United States relations. Doctor Young is married to Barbara A. Finamore, an attorney who heads the China Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
They have three children: Michael is working in Washington, District of Columbia. Rebecca is working in Seattle, Washington. And Patrick is a Peace Corps Volunteer in China.
Doctor Young"s reputation in Taiwan became controversial after many of his reports were revealed by WikiLeaks.
He was described as an "Ugly American" and an "Ugly Diplomat" by Doctor James Soong, the president of People First Party (PFP) of Taiwan, after Doctor Soong learned that he had been described as a "wily" person in Doctor Young"s reports.
Membership
Recently, he was a member of the faculty at the National Defense University"s Industrial College of the Armed Forces, located at Fort McNair in Washington, District of Columbia Member of the National Committee of CPPCC Lew Mon-hung Compared the Hong Kong Autonomy Movement to the Taiwan Independence Movement, and believes that the Hong Kong Autonomy Movement is covertly instigated and planned by Doctor Young, who was the then Consulate General of the United States in Hong Kong, in an attempt to split Hong Kong away from China.
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