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Brookings, CSIS, and Georgetown Joint Seminar Seires

Taiwan's Democracy: A Historical Review

Taiwan, Northeast Asia, Elections, Asia


Event Summary

In this speech launching a series of seminars on Taiwan’s presidential and legislative elections, Dr. Joseph Wu, Representative at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, praises Taiwan’s peaceful democratic development, but identifies some weaknesses in the system and suggests means for improvement.

Dr. Wu’s on-the-record address launched a series of joint public seminars by Brookings, CSIS, and Georgetown examining Taiwan’s democratic development, its 2008 legislative and presidential elections, and implications for relations with the United States and China. Additional seminars will take place on December 10, February 21 and March 26.

Event Information

When

Wednesday, November 07, 2007
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Where

Falk Auditorium
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC
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Contact: Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies

E-mail: cnaps@brookings.edu

Phone: 202.797.6055

 

Transcript

RICHARD BUSH: In my view, I think these elections that are coming up are very important in Taiwan’s political history. Any election in Taiwan is important, but I think these two are particularly important. They will, obviously, define which party controls the legislature, which party controls the executive branch, which candidate is the next president of Taiwan.

They will shape the course of cross-strait relations, U.S.-Taiwan relations. They will define whether the Taiwan political system is able to address some of the serious problems that Taiwan faces. And so it’s serious business.

And that is why our three organizations—Brookings, the Freeman Chair at CSIS, and Georgetown—thought that it was important to sponsor this series on the elections. And that is why we thought it would be very useful to invite Ambassador Joseph Wu from TECRO to talk to us this lunchtime on Taiwan’s democracy and historical review.

Participants

Speaker

Dr. Joseph Wu

Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office


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