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Taiwan held elections for the president and all the members of the Legislative Yuan on January 11. Although President Tsai Ing-wen had maintained a strong lead in the polls, there were questions about the reliability of some polls. Moreover, the outcome of the legislative elections was very uncertain. China, which has long made clear its dislike of the Tsai administration, had predictably intensified its pressure campaign against Tsai and Taiwan, hoping to impact these elections. In the end, Tsai Ing-wen was reelected, and the Democratic Progressive Party maintained its majority in the Legislative Yuan.
On January 16, the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution hosted a panel of policy experts for a discussion on the results of the elections and their implications for domestic governance in Taiwan, relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, U.S.-Taiwan relations, and other policy implications.
Agenda
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January 16
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10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Moderator
Richard C. Bush Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China CenterDiscussant
Jacques deLisle Director, Asia Program - Foreign Policy Research Institute, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law & Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for East Asian Studies - University of Pennsylvania
Alexander C. Huang Head of Defense Team - KMT Presidential Candidate Han Kuo-yu, Director, the Institute of Strategic Studies and the Institute of American Studies - Tamkang University, Taiwan @Sinostrategy
Yun Sun Nonresident Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative, Nonresident Fellow - Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center
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