35 Years Later: Assessing the Effectiveness of the Taiwan Relations Act

Featuring:
Representative Shen Lyushun
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office
and Keynote Speaker:
Chairman Raymond Burghardt
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, American Institute in Taiwan
 

AGENDA

Registration and Continental Breakfast: 8:30-9:00 a.m.
 
Opening Session: 9:00 - 9:15 a.m.

Welcome and Introduction by,

Representative Shen Lyushun
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office

Panel One: 9:15 - 10:45 a.m.

"A Historical Examination of the Taiwan Relations Act"

Chris Nelson
Senior Vice President, Samuels International Associates

Carl Ford
President, Ford and Associates

David Lee
Chairman, Coordination Council for North American Affairs
 
Moderator:
 
Richard Bush
Senior Fellow and Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies
Director, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution

Panel Two: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

"Contemporary U.S.-Taiwan Relations"

Kevin Nealer
Principal, The Scowcroft Group

Randy Schriver
CEO and President, Project 2049; Partner, Armitage International

Andrew N.D. Yang
Assistant Professor, National Sun Yat-sen University
Former Minister of Defense, R.O.C.
 
Moderator:
 
Bonnie Glaser
Senior Adviser, Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS

Luncheon with Keynote Speaker: 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Chairman Raymond Burghardt
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, American Institute in Taiwan

Panel Three: 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

"The TRA in the 21st Century & U.S.-Taiwan-China Relations"
 
Li Peng
Associate Director, Taiwan Research Institute, Xiamen University;
Visiting Scholar, University of Maryland

David Wei-Feng Huang
Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica

Steven Goldstein
Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Smith College
 
Moderator:
 
Christopher Johnson
Senior Adviser and Freeman Chair in China Studies, CSIS