Consolidating Taiwan’s
Democracy:
Challenges, Opportunities, and Prospects
A Joint Symposium organized
by
The Brookings Institution Center for Northeast
Asian Policy Studies
Center for Strategic and International Studies, Freeman Chair in China
Studies
Institute for National Policy Research
March
22, 2006
Center
for Strategic and International Studies
1800 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Discourse in the United
States about Taiwan’s political system is often paradoxical. On
the one hand, there is praise for the democratization in Taiwan. On the
other hand, the “outputs” of that democracy sometimes provoke
the opposition of concerned governments and American China specialists.
At this joint symposium, the supposed gap between positive and negative
American views of Taiwan’s politics was closed through exploring
the challenges, opportunities, and prospects for consolidating Taiwan’s
democracy.
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here for biographies of Symposium participants.