Taiwan’s 2016 election and prospects for the Tsai administration
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Taiwan’s 2016 election and prospects for the Tsai administration
Taiwan’s 2016 election and prospects for the Tsai administration
Panel 1: Taiwan’s domestic prognosis
Panel 2: Taiwan’s external strategy
On May 20, 2016, Taiwan inaugurated its first female president, Tsai Ing-wen. Along with the executive office, the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) gained a majority in the Legislative Yuan for the first time. The challenges facing the new administration, which President Tsai laid out in her inauguration address, are vast and complex ranging from pension reforms, environmental protection and unemployment concerns to regional economic integration and cross-Strait stability.
On June 8, the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at Brookings and the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) co-hosted a conference on the future of Taiwan under the Tsai administration. Panelists presented papers on how the 2016 elections impact domestic politics, cross-Strait relations and Taiwan’s external strategy, and what the elections mean for Tsai’s social and economic policy reform agenda and Taiwan’s aspirations for a greater role in international space. Orbis, FPRI’s journal of world affairs, will publish a special Taiwan issue with the conference papers.
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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
Panel 1: Taiwan’s domestic prognosis
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
Shelley Rigger
Brown Professor and Assistant Dean for Educational Policy - Political Science Department, Davidson College
Richard C. Bush
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center
Panel 2: Taiwan’s external strategy
Richard C. Bush
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center
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
June Teufel Dreyer
Senior Fellow, Asia Program - Foreign Policy Research Institute
Alan D. Romberg
Distinguished Fellow and Director, East Asia Program, The Henry L. Stimson Center
Vincent Wang
Associate Professor and Chair
Concluding remarks
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
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