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RICHARD BUSH: I am with the Brookings Institution and the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies. I would like to thank CSIS and the U.S.-Taiwan Business Council for their outstanding support and hard work in this.
I would like to introduce the three panelists we have this morning to talk about trade and economics: Nicholas Lardy, a former colleague at Brookings, now a Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Economics; Mignonne Chan, who is the Director of the Division of International Affairs at the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research; and Chang Yi Wang, who is President and CEO of United Biomedical, Incorporated.
The purpose of this conference today is to look forward. We have had a very exciting election, a horse race that somebody won by a nose. Still some people think that it is unclear. But with a horse race, the horses go back to the barn and you wait until next year. In this case, somebody will have to govern Taiwan and somebody will have to fashion policies that provide benefits for the people of Taiwan. So that is our focus today, first of all on trade and economics, and then politics and security.
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