Past Event
November
18
2014
Campaigns & Elections
Taiwan’s Municipal Elections: Local Races with National Implications
Taiwan faces domestic and external policy challenges on a range of fronts. Some are common to industrial democracies around the world and some, such as exclusion from many international organizations, are unique to Taiwan. In the year 2015, formulating and implementing solutions to these challenges will be complicated by Taiwan’s large-scale local elections at the end of 2014 and national elections at the beginning of 2016.
On October 28 in Taipei, the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at Brookings, the Taipei Forum, and the Association of Foreign Relations hosted a public conference examining issues in democratic governance, regional and global trade and economics, and relations across the Taiwan Strait. Leading experts from Taiwan, the United States, China, Korea, and Japan examined some of the policy and political challenges facing Taipei over the coming year. The Honorable David Y.L. Lin, minister of foreign affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) delivered an opening keynote speech.
After each session, participants responded to audience questions.
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Agenda
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October 28
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Panel 1: Problems of Democratic Governance
10:20 am
LWTLouis W.H. Tzen Vice Chairman - Association of Foreign RelationsSKSunhyuk Kim Professor, Department of Public Administration - Korea UniversityHTHarukata Takenaka Professor - National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, JapanYCYun-han Chu Academician, Academia Sinica - Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan University
Michael E. O’Hanlon Director of Research - Foreign Policy, Director - Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Co-Director - Africa Security Initiative, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology, Philip H. Knight Chair in Defense and Strategy @MichaelEOHanlonYWYu-shan Wu Distinguished Research Fellow and Director, Institute for Political Science - Academia Sinica -
Panel 3: Cross-Strait Relations
3:30 pm
FCFredrick Chien Chairman - Cathay Charity Foundation
Richard C. Bush Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China CenterLHLingwei Hu Deputy Director - Shanghai East Asia InstituteMSLMr. Shih-chung Liu Senior Research Fellow, Taiwan Brain Trust
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Welcome and Introduction
9:30 am
FHOFrancisco H.L. Ou Chairman - Association of Foreign Relations
Richard C. Bush Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center -
Keynote Address
9:40 am
THDYLThe Honorable David Y.L. Lin Minister of Foreign Affairs - Republic of China (Taiwan) -
Panel 2: Economic Issues
1:40 pm
Richard C. Bush Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center
Mireya Solís Director - Center for Asia Policy Studies, Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Asia Policy Studies, Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies @solis_msolisSHSheng-Cheng Hu Academician - Academia Sinica
Tain-Jy Chen Professor Emeritus - National Taiwan University
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