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.
Join Hudson Institute for a discussion of how the US can build a more resilient and flexible energetics base—one that can meet sustained demand while accelerating the development and fielding of new capabilities.
Join Hudson Institute for a conference with leaders from industry, government, academia, and defense to discuss the latest developments in the US-China AI competition.
Join House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (AL-03) for a fireside discussion with Senior Fellow Nadia Schadlow on Congress’s role in revitalizing America’s defense industrial base.
Join Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Ken Moriyasu for a panel with Chaim Martin, Israel’s minister of economic affairs to the United States; Aslı Aydıntaşbaş of the Brookings Institution; Soner Cagaptay of the Washington Institute; and Director of the Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East Michael Doran as they examine the logic behind each framework and what their rivalry means for US policy.
