24
March 2017
Past Event
Reaffirming the U.S.-Taiwan Security Relationship

Reaffirming the U.S.-Taiwan Security Relationship

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
March 24, 2017
A US-made AH-64E Apache attack helicopter flies during a ceremony in an army airborne special force unit in Tainan, southern Taiwan on December 13, 2013. (Mandy Cheng/AFP/Getty Images)
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A US-made AH-64E Apache attack helicopter flies during a ceremony in an army airborne special force unit in Tainan, southern Taiwan on December 13, 2013. (Mandy Cheng/AFP/Getty Images)
24
March 2017
Past Event

1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC 20004

Speakers:
Seth Cropsey

President, Yorktown Institute

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William Schneider

Senior Fellow

Ian Easton

Research Fellow, Project 2049 Institute

Dennis Wilder

Assistant Professor, Georgetown University and Senior Fellow, Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues

As President Donald Trump meets with China’s President Xi Jinping next month, one subject that is likely to be discussed is Taiwan. President Trump has inherited a clear and long-established diplomatic and security structure pledged to defend Taiwan, its democratic political institutions, and the freedoms its people enjoy. The keystones of U.S. relations with Taiwan are the Taiwan Relations Act and the Six Assurances which established guidelines for U.S. policy toward Taiwan over the last four decades. The Six Assurances addressed U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, set a fixed stance on sovereignty issues, and guaranteed that previous agreements calling for U.S. assistance to defend Taiwan would remain firmly in effect.

On March 24, Hudson Institute's Center for American Seapower hosted a distinguished panel of experts to examine the Trump administration’s stance on Taiwan and the outlook for existing agreements to protect Taiwan. Hudson senior fellows Seth Cropsey and William Schneider were joined by Dennis Wilder, a professor at Georgetown University, and Ian Easton of the Project 2049 Institute. The panel assessed what is needed to fulfill and fortify the existing agreements with Taiwan and assure not only this partnership, but the U.S.’s entire network of regional and global alliances.

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