U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Current Challenges, Future Hopes

Panel 1: Impact of Cross-Strait Relations on U.S.-Taiwan Relations
This session will review cross-Strait relations, with a focus on recent developments, such as passage of the Anti-Secession Law and the visits to the mainland by Taiwan opposition leaders, and the impact they have on cross-Strait and U.S.-Taiwan relations.
Speakers: Bih-jaw Lin, Vice President, National Chengchi University
David Huang, Vice Chairman, Mainland Affairs Council
Discussant: Carl Ford, Consultant

Panel 2: Impact of U.S.-China Relations on U.S.-Taiwan Relations
This session will review U.S.-China relations in the wake of the Bush-Hu summit, the inauguration of the Senior-Level Dialogue, and the visit to China by Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, with a view to their impact on U.S. relations with Taiwan.
Speakers: Cheng-yi Lin, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Fu-Kuo Liu, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University
Discussant: Bonnie Glaser, CSIS, Pacific Forum CSIS

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Lunch Speaker: Bi-khim Hsiao, Legislator (Democratic Rpogressive Party), Legislative Yuan

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Panel 3: U.S.-Taiwan Relations
This session will look at the current state of U.S.-Taiwan relations, focusing on the
relationship itself (as opposed to how it is effected by cross-Strait or U.S.-China relations,
which will be explored in the previous panels) sources of tension and controversy and
ways to improve them.
Speaker: Joanne Chang, Deputy TECRO representative (Washington)
Discussant: Robert Sutter, George WAshington University

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