Relations across the Taiwan Strait: Retrospective and prospects for future development
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Relations across the Taiwan Strait: Retrospective and prospects for future development - Part 1
During the presidency of Ma Ying-jeou, political, economic, and social exchanges across the Taiwan Strait have reached new levels. As Ma approaches the end of his term and presidential candidates launch their campaigns for the January 2016 elections, Taipei and Beijing face both opportunities and challenges in enhancing and consolidating cross-Strait relations.
On July 13, the Center for East Asia Policy Studies and John L. Thornton China Center at Brookings, the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Taiwan-based Association of Foreign Relations co-hosted a public conference to identify and analyze key opportunities and challenges in cross-Strait relations under changing domestic, regional, and global conditions. Leading experts from Taiwan, the United States, and mainland China reviewed recent events in cross-Strait relations and analyzed prospects for further development. Panelists discussed Taipei-Washington-Beijing relations, and examined current political and economic development conditions in mainland China and how they impact mainland China’s approach to Taiwan. Andrew L.Y. Hsia, minister of the Mainland Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan, made an opening keynote address. Raymond Burghardt, chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan, provided luncheon remarks.
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Agenda
Welcome
Richard C. Bush
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center
Keynote address
Andrew L.Y. Hsia
Minister - Mainland Affairs Council
Panel 1: Opportunities and challenges in cross-Strait relations
Richard C. Bush
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center
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
Samuel S. G. Wu
Professor - Department of Public Administration and Policy
Alan D. Romberg
Distinguished Fellow and Director, East Asia Program, The Henry L. Stimson Center
Guo Baogang
Professor of Political Science - Director, Center for International Education
Lunch remarks
Raymond Burghardt
Chairman of the Board of Trustees - American Institute in Taiwan
Panel 2: Opportunities and challenges of political and economic developments in mainland China
Leng Tse-Kang
Professor of Political Science - National Chengchi University
Hans H. Tung
Assistant Professor - Department of Political Science
Scott Kennedy
Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics - Center for Strategic and International Studies
Zeng Jin
Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations - Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs
Panel 3: Opportunities and challenges for the new context in U.S.-Taiwan-mainland China relations
Bonnie S. Glaser
Director of the Asia Program - The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Kwei-Bo Huang
Secretary-General - Association of Foreign Relations
Wang Yuan-kang
Associate Professor - Department of Sociology
Steven M. Goldstein
Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College - Harvard University
Director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop - Harvard University
Zhao Suisheng
Professor, Josef Korbel School of International Studies - Director, Center for China-U.S. Cooperation
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