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Taiwan’s Sunflower Seeds: Student Protests, Cross-Strait Agreements, and Their Implications for Taiwan Politics and US Policy

  • April 14, 2014
Jacques deLisle

Moderator

Director - Asia Program

Steven A. Cozen Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania

June Teufel Dreyer

Senior Fellow - Asia Program

Member, Board of Editors

Professor of Political Science, University of Miami

Shelley Rigger

Senior Fellow - Asia Program

Brown Professor of East Asian Politics, Davidson College

Vincent Wei-Cheng Wang

Senior Fellow - Asia Program

Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond


In this edition of FPRI radio, Jacques deLisle assembles three FPRI Senior Fellows to explore why a group of students recently occupied Taiwan’s legislature, and the group’s evolving mix of aims and agendas. Other topics include the Cross-Strait Trade in Services Agreement and its perceived economic implications, allegations of undemocratic processes by Taiwan’s ruling KMT Party, the call for a citizens’ constitutional conference, and how all of these issues affect Taiwan’s upcoming local (2014) and national (2016) elections, Cross-Strait relations, and US foreign policy in the region.

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