Cross-Strait Relations and Taiwan’s Upcoming Elections
with Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of East Asian Politics and Chair of Chinese Studies and Assistant Dean for Educational Policy at Davidson College
Tuesday, December 15, 19:00
Face Bar
[18:30] Arrivals and drinks [19:00] Event begins
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This event is made possible by the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, Beijing |
On January 16, 2016, Taiwan will hold general elections and choose its next president. Just a few years ago, Taiwanese were enthusiastic about the benefits cross-Strait economic ties were bringing to the island. Today, popular views on cross-Strait economic relations are ambivalent at best.
Dr. Shelley Rigger will join Young China Watchers to examine the socioeconomic and political context surrounding Taiwan’s election and the likely direction of cross-Strait relations under new Taiwanese leadership. She will also share her thoughts on the recent Xi-Ma meeting and her ideas for sustaining the successes of cross-Strait engagement over the past seven years beyond this year’s elections.
This event is made made possible by the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, Beijing.
Please note that this event is off the record.
Shelley Rigger is the Brown Professor of East Asian Politics, Chair of Chinese Studies and Assistant Dean for Educational Policy at Davidson College. She has a PhD in Government from Harvard University and a BA in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University. She has been a visiting researcher at National Chengchi University in Taiwan (2005) and a visiting professor at Fudan University (2006) and Shanghai Jiaotong University (2013). She is a non-resident fellow of the China Policy Institute at Nottingham University and a senior fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI). Rigger is the author of two books on Taiwan’s domestic politics, Politics in Taiwan: Voting for Democracy (Routledge 1999) and From Opposition to Power: Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party (Lynne Rienner Publishers 2001).
There will be a cover charge payable at the door of RMB 40 for this event. The cover charge includes one free drink.
