A New Era in Cross-Strait Relations--Challenges, Opportunities, and Constraints

Friday, May 29, 2009

8:15 am to 8:45 am

Registration & Reception
Continental Breakfast

8:45 am to 9:00 am

Introduction by Larry Diamond, Director of CDDRL; Senior Fellow of Hoover Institution and FSI, Stanford University

9:00 am to 10:30 am

Session I: Cross-Strait Relations under the DPP Administration

Moderator: Larry Diamond, Director of CDDRL; Senior Fellow of Hoover Institution and FSI, Stanford University

Speakers:

• Ming-tong Chen, Professor of Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University; Former Chairman of Mainland Affairs Council
• TJ Cheng, Class of 1935 Professor of Political Science, College of William and Mary
• Shih-chung Liu, Visiting Scholar, Brookings Institution; Former Vice Chairman of the Research and Planning Committee in Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs

10:30 am to 10:50 am

Break

10:50 am to 12:15 pm

Session II: Recent Development under the KMT Administration

Moderator: Ramon Myers, Senior Fellow Emeritus of Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Speakers:

• Chien-Min Chao, Deputy Minister of Mainland Affairs Council; Professor of Graduate Institute of Development Studies, National Chengchi University 
• Alan D. Romberg, Distinguished Fellow, The Henry L. Stimson Center

12:15 pm to 1:30 pm

Lunch

1:30 pm to 3:00 pm

Session III: Economic Dimension of Cross-Strait Relations

Moderator: Henry Rowen, Senior Fellow of Hoover Institution; Emeritus Director, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University

Speakers:

• Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Smith College
• Cliff Tan, Consulting Professor, Stanford Center for International Development

3:00 pm to 3:20 pm

Break

3:20 pm to 4:45 pm

Session IV: Taiwan's Domestic Politics and Cross-Strait Relations

Moderator: Eric Yu, Research Fellow & Program Manager, CDDRL, Stanford University

Speakers:

• Yi-cheng Jou, Founder, Third Society Party
• Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of Political Science, Davidson College

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Session V: Taiwan's Security and Cross-Strait Relations

Moderator: Larry Diamond, Director of CDDRL; Senior Fellow of Hoover Institution and FSI, Stanford University

Speakers:

• Chong-Pin Lin, Professor of Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies, Tamkang University; Former Deputy Minister of Defense of ROC
• Sam Suisheng Zhao, Professor and Executive Director of the Center for China-US Cooperation, University of Denver

Session VI: Impact of Cross-Strait Exchanges on Mainland China

Moderator: TJ Cheng, Class of 1935 Professor of Political Science, College of William and Mary

Speakers:

• Yun-han Chu, Distinguished Fellow of Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica; Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan University
• Gang Lin, Professor of Political Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Robert Kapp, President of Robert A Kapp and Associate, Inc; Former President of the US - China Business Council