Please join us for a discussion of what Tsai\’s speech and Beijing’s reaction portend for U.S.-Mainland-Taiwan relations.

Dr. Tsai Ing-wen will be inaugurated as President of Taiwan on May 20, 2016. Beijing has made clear that if she does not embrace the One China principle and invoke the 1992 Consensus as the basis of Cross-Strait relations in her inaugural speech, Mainland-Taiwan relations cannot continue on the constructive path they have followed over the past eight years. Speaking the words Beijing wishes to hear, however, would likely alienate supporters of Tsai’s Democratic Progressive Party and might violate some of her own core beliefs. Every sentence of her remarks will be parsed closely in Beijing, Washington, and around the world. Please join us for a discussion of what Tsai’s speech and Beijing’s reaction portend for U.S.-Mainland-Taiwan relations.

Speakers

Ambassador J. Stapleton (Stape) Roy
Distinguished Scholar, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States

Bonnie Glaser
Senior Advisor for Asia and Director, China Power Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Dr. Vincent Wei-cheng Wang
Associate Dean and Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond

Moderator

Robert Daly
Director, Kissinger Institute on China and the United States