15
May 2024
Past Event
The Pernicious Impact of China’s Anti-Secession Law

Event will also air live on this page.

 

Inquiries: mdewitt@hudson.org

The Pernicious Impact of China’s Anti-Secession Law

Past Event
Hudson Institute
May 15, 2024
Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian participates in a rally to protest against the Anti-Secession Law on March 26, 2005, in Taipei, Taiwan. (Photo by Andrew Wong/Getty Images)
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Chen Shui-bian, then president of Taiwan, participates in a rally to protest against the Anti-Secession Law on March 26, 2005, in Taipei, Taiwan. (Photo by Andrew Wong/Getty Images)
15
May 2024
Past Event

Event will also air live on this page.

 

Inquiries: mdewitt@hudson.org

Speakers:
mike_pompeo
Michael R. Pompeo

Former Distinguished Fellow

Cotton
Tom Cotton

United States Senator, Arkansas

Robert Tsao
Robert Tsao

Founder, United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC)

Senator Marsha Blackburn
Senator Marsha Blackburn

United States Senator, Tennessee

Scott Morrison headshot
Scott Morrison

Advisory Board Member, China Center

Director of the Political Division
Vincent Chao

Taipei City Council

Yu-Jie Chen
Yu-Jie Chen

Assistant Research Professor, Law Institute of Academia Sinica, Taiwan and Nonresident Affiliated Scholar, US-Asia Law Institute, New York University School of Law

Margaret Lewis Seton Hall University
Margaret Lewis

Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Seton Hall University

Donald C. Clarke
Donald C. Clarke

Professor of Law and David A. Weaver Research Professor, George Washington University

Heino Klinck
Heino Klinck

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, East Asia

Bonny Lin
Bonny Lin

Director, China Power Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Moderator:
miles_yu
Miles Yu

Senior Fellow and Director, China Center

Hudson Institute’s China Center and United Microelectronics Corporation founder Robert Tsao will host a conference with experts and policymakers to analyze the People’s Republic of China’s 2005 anti-secession law. The law poses a grave threat to global stability, commerce, free and democratic institutions, and, most of all, Taiwan’s right to self-determination. The conference will promote an international awareness of the law’s far-reaching significance and pernicious impact.

The conference will feature Seventieth Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), former Director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States (TECRO) Political Division Vincent Chao, and more.

Agenda

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Registration

8:40 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Welcome Remarks

  • John P. Walters, President and CEO, Hudson Institute

8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Opening Remarks 

  • Mike Pompeo, Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute and Seventieth US Secretary of State

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | The Anti-Secession Law and Its Impact on Taiwan and Regional and Global Peace

  • Sen. Tom Cotton, United States Senator, Arkansas
  • Robert Tsao, Founder, United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC)
  • Sen. Marsha Blackburn, United States Senator, Tennessee

10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Panel: The Anti-Secession Law’s Legal Ground and Illegality

  • Yu-Jie Chen, Assistant Research Professor, Law Institute of Academia Sinica, Taiwan and Nonresident Affiliated Scholar, US-Asia Law Institute, New York University School of Law
  • Margaret Lewis, Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Seton Hall University
  • Donald Clarke, Professor of Law and David A. Weaver Research Professor, George Washington University

Moderator

  • Miles Yu, Senior Fellow and Director of the China Center, Hudson Institute

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Lunch

12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. | An Australian Perspective: A Conversation with Hon. Scott Morrison

  • Scott Morrison, Thirtieth Prime Minister of Australia 

Moderator

  • Miles Yu, Senior Fellow and Director of the China Center, Hudson Institute

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Panel: Securing Peace in the Indo-Pacific—How to Counter China’s Anti-Secession Law

  • Vincent Chao, Taipei City Council
  • Heino Klinck, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, East Asia 
  • Bonny Lin, Director, China Power Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Moderator

  • Miles Yu, Senior Fellow and Director of the China Center, Hudson Institute

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