How Taiwan Should Respond to New U.S.-China Chess Game

In the face of the new international political situation of the US-China confrontation, whether the two sides adopt competition, confrontation, or cooperation in politics, economy, diplomacy, trade, and other aspects, it affects the global political and economic situation. In this process of power play, countries around the world have adopted a “double bet” strategy. However, since the inauguration of President Tsai Ing-wen in 2016, Taiwan has refused to recognize the “1992 Consensus,” causing cross-strait relations to freeze rapidly, and there are almost no channels or space for dialogue between the two sides. Taiwan’s international space has also been greatly squeezed. In the face of this new chess game, how should Taiwan deal with it? What strategy should be adopted? Should it “lean towards the United States”? “Double bet”? Or can it really stay out of it?

Fair Winds Lecture: How Taiwan Should Respond to New U.S.-China Chess Game

Speaker: Su Chi (Chairman of Taipei Forum Foundation) Lecture time: Sunday, November 11, 2018 3 PM—5 PM  Location: Room 1003, Chang Yung-fa Foundation (10FF, No. 11, Zhongshan S. Rd., Zhongzheng Dist., Taipei City 100) Registration URL: https://goo.gl/uWJLsw

Agenda:

15:00-16:00 Su Chi’s speech

16:00-16:30 Expert discussion

Moderator: Jiang Yi-huah (Professor of Strategic and International Affairs, National Chung Cheng University) Featuring: Su Chi (Chairman of Taipei Forum Foundation), Huang Ching-lung (Publisher of China Times and President of Want Daily) 16:30-17:00 Open Q&A

Organizer: Fair Winds Cultural and Educational Foundation, Taipei Forum Foundation

1. Speaker: Su Chi (Chairman of Taipei Forum Foundation) Su Chi holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in the United States. He is currently the Chairman of the Taipei Forum Foundation and an honorary professor at the Institute of National Development at National Chengchi University. He has taught at the Department of Diplomacy at National Chengchi University and the Mainland China Studies Institute at Tamkang University. He has also served as Director-General of the Government Information Office, Deputy Secretary-General of the Presidential Office, Chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, Legislator, and Secretary-General of the National Security Council. He has both theoretical and practical experience and has written books such as “Twenty Years of Cross-Strait Waves”, “Taiwan’s Relations with Mainland China-A Tail Wagging Two Dog’s”, and “Dangerous Edge: From ‘Two-State Theory’ to ‘One Side and One Country’”.
    
2. Moderator: Jiang Yi-huah (Professor of Strategic and International Affairs, National Chung Cheng University) Jiang Yi-huah is currently a Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Strategic and International Affairs at National Chung Cheng University. Born in Keelung, Taiwan, he holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in political science from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University in the United States. He has served as a research assistant at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Academia Sinica, associate professor and professor at the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University, deputy dean of academic affairs and director of the Teaching Development Center at National Taiwan University, and professor at the Department of Public Policy at City University of Hong Kong. From 2008 to 2014, he served as Chairman of the Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission of the Executive Yuan, Minister of the Interior, Vice Premier of the Executive Yuan, and Premier of the Executive Yuan.
    
3. Guest: Huang Ching-lung (Publisher of China Times and President of Want Daily) Huang Ching-lung is currently the publisher of China Times and the president of Want Daily. He graduated from the Department of Journalism at National Chengchi University in Taiwan and was a visiting scholar at the East Asia Institute at Columbia University in New York and the Northeast Asia Policy Research Center at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He has served as a reporter for the United Daily News, chief interviewer for the Liberty Times, chief editor and editor-in-chief of the China Times, chief interviewer and editor-in-chief of the China Times, vice president, director, and executive supervisor of the Taipei Newspaper Industry Association, and executive supervisor of the Taipei Newspaper Industry Association. He has worked in journalism for 32 years and is a senior media person in Taiwan. He has written books such as “Is There Still a Future for Newspapers? Observations on the Development of American, Japanese, and Chinese Media”.