Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Midterm Elections in Taiwan-and the United States: What Happened and What are the Implications for Taiwan-US-China Relations?

A nation must think before it acts.

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VENUE:Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York

Midterm Elections in Taiwan-and the United States: What Happened and What are the Implications for Taiwan-US-China Relations?

| Asia Program

About the Event

6:00 p.m. Reception; 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Panel Discussion and Q&A

On November 24, 2018, Taiwan’s voters go to the polls to elect city and county level officials in the principal elections that fall between the 2016 and 2020 contests for the presidency and the national legislature. Like midterm elections in the United States that occur shortly before Taiwan’s, these local elections in Taiwan are scrutinized for what they reveal about popular support for the ruling party and what they might portend for national elections two years later. In 2014, severe losses for the then-ruling Kuomintang foreshadowed the party’s loss of the presidency and the parliament to the then-opposition Democratic Progressive Party.

What lessons should we draw from Taiwan’s midterm elections? What does the outcome portend for the 2020 vote?  What are the implications for Taiwan’s relations with Mainland China and the United States?  What impact might the U.S. midterm elections, with the Democrats winning control of the House, have on Taiwan’s external relations?

Panelists:

Jacques deLisle Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, and Director, Asia Program, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Elizabeth Freund Larus, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, University of Mary Washington in Virginia, and President, E Larus Consulting
Vincent Wang, Professor of Political Science and Dean Emeritus of the School of Humanities and Sciences, Ithaca College, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
isaac stone fish Isaac Stone Fish, International Affairs Journalist, Senior Fellow at the Asia Society's Center on U.S. China Relations, and Visiting Fellow at the German Marshall Fund
   

 


Venue

Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York

1 East 42nd Street
New York. NY. US. 10017


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Speakers

Jacques deLisle

Jacques deLisle - Jacques deLisle is the Chair of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He is also the Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Elizabeth Freund Larus

Elizabeth Freund Larus - Dr. Elizabeth Freund Larus is the Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at University of Mary Washington in Virginia, USA, and President of E Larus Consulting LLC.

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Vincent Wei-Cheng Wang

Vincent Wei-Cheng Wang - Vincent Wei-Cheng Wang, a Senior Fellow in the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, is Dean and Professor of Political Science at Adelphi University.

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Isaac Stone Fish

Isaac Stone Fish - Isaac Stone Fish is the author of America Second, which came out in mid-February from Knopf. He is the founder and CEO of the research firm Strategy Risks, which quantifies corporate exposure to China. He is also a Washington Post Global Opinions contributing columnist, a contributor to CBSN, an adjunct at NYU's Center for Global Affairs, a visiting fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a columnist on China risk at Barron's.

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