A series of recent, high-profile news stories are already shadowing preparations for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Washington later this month: regional security tensions driven by Beijing’s expansive territorial claims in disputed waters of the South China Sea; global reverberations from the Shanghai stock market implosion and China’s general economic slowdown; and new revelations about systematic, Beijing-directed economic cybertheft.
But missing from the headlines—and also crucially relevant to President Xi’s forthcoming meetings with President Obama—is Taiwan, a regional player in the Western Pacific with a continuing, significant role and stake in bilateral, U.S.-China relations.
On Tuesday, September 8, Hudson Institute hosted a panel discussion on the various confluences and disjunctions in current U.S., Taiwanese, and Chinese strategy—and the extent to which Taiwan, in particular, will weigh in the balance as Beijing and Washington continue their struggle for cooperation and competitive advantage in Asia and around the world. Featured participants included: Hudson Senior Fellows Seth Cropsey and Michael Pillsbury; Parris Chang, president of the Taiwan Institute for Political, Economic and Strategic Studies and former deputy secretary general of Taiwan’s National Security Council; and Ian Easton, a research fellow specializing on Asian defense and security issues at the Project 2049 Institute.
Please join Hudson Institute for a fireside chat with Senior Fellow and Keystone Defense Initiative Director Rebeccah Heinrichs and John Spencer, chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point and co-director of the Urban Warfare Project.
Join Hudson Institute and the Ben Franklin Fellowship for a two-panel discussion examining US policy as it confronts the crisis of terror in Nigeria.
Join Hudson Institute's Center for the Economics of the Internet for a keynote address given by Tricia Paoletta on the Trump administration's progress in managing and reallocating the electromagnetic radio frequency spectrum from the federal domain.
Join Hudson Institute for a discussion with Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson and Senior Fellow Harold Furchtgott-Roth.
