[MIT CSSA Outreach] Fwd: Taiwan Studies Conference

[lugao]

----- Forwarded message from carol.y.yu at gmail.com -----
    Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:37:59 -0400
    From: Carol Yu <carol.y.yu at gmail.com>
Reply-To: Carol Yu <carol.y.yu at gmail.com>
 Subject: Taiwan Studies Conference
      To: hks-china09-all at googlegroups.com, harvard-chinese at googlegroups.com,
lugao at MIT.EDU, xjia at MIT.EDU, jenlai at MIT.EDU, chsueh at MIT.EDU

*30th Anniversary of Taiwan Relations Act - **Taiwan Studies Conference*
Held in Knafel Building, Room 354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, the
event takes place from 10:30 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. on Friday April 3. The
conference is co-sponsored by Asia Programs at the Ash Institute for
Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School and the Taiwan
Studies Workshop of the John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies,
Harvard University.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA).
Enacted on April 10, 1979, the bill continued the commercial and cultural
relationship between the U.S. and Taiwan despite the severance of formal
diplomatic ties between the two sides. While the law has done much to
strengthen Taiwan’s economy and democratic practices, it remains a point of
contention between the U.S. and the People’s Republic of China, the latter
often viewing such legislation as an unnecessary intrusion of the U.S. in
domestic affairs. At the same time, the law codifies a position of
“strategic ambiguity” in which the U.S. takes no firm position whether to
intervene on behalf of Taiwan should China jeopardize the country’s
security.

Join us as we take a look back at the drafting and implementing of the TRA
and discuss the potential implications on relations among the U.S., Taiwan,
and China going forward. J. Stapleton Roy, former ambassador to the People’s
Republic of China from 1991 to 1995, will deliver the conference keynote
address at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, April 3.

Other esteemed panelists include Roger W. Sullivan, former president of the
U.S.-China Business Council; Tawei Lee, representative of the Taipei
Economic and Cultural Office in Canada; Douglas H. Paal, vice president for
Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former
director of the American Institute on Taiwan; Richard Bush, senior fellow at
the Brookings Institution; Thomas C. Christensen, professor of politics at
Princeton University; and Robert G. Sutter, visiting professor of Asian
Studies.

View the full conference agenda at
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~fairbank/events/taiwan.html#goldstein


----- End forwarded message -----
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/cssa-outreach/attachments/20090331/3a275853/attachment.htm