2018 West Coast Forum
A Time of Uncertainty in US-Taiwan-China Relation
DATE | August 24 (Friday), 2018 - 12:45 - 4:30 p.m.
LOCATION | ASC 204, US-China Institute, USC
3502 Watt Way, ASC 204,
Los Angeles, CA 90089-028
LOCATION | ASC 204, US-China Institute, USC
3502 Watt Way, ASC 204,
Los Angeles, CA 90089-028
Symposium sponsored by the Grassroots Diplomacy Council and the USC U.S.-China Institute.
Agenda
12:45 – 01:30 pm | Informal Light Lunch Networking
01:40 - 01:45 pm | Opening Remarks (Room 204)
01:40 - 01:45 pm | Opening Remarks (Room 204)
- Clayton Dube | Director of US-China Institute
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Clayton Dube heads the USC U.S.-China Institute which focuses on the multithreaded U.S.-China relationship. Dube teaches Chinese history and studies the role of the media in U.S.-China relations.
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- Yinglee Tseng | President, GDC
01:45 - 03:00 pm | Panel I
"Chaos and Disorder : Foreign Policy in the Trump Era"
"Chaos and Disorder : Foreign Policy in the Trump Era"
- Tom Hollihan | Professor | Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
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Thomas Hollihan teaches communication at USC and chairs the U.S.-China Institute executive committee. He specializes in political communication and has been a consultant for politicians, the U.S. Navy, and various businesses and non-profit organizations. His most recent book is The Dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands: How Media Narratives Shape Public Opinions and Challenge the Global Order. His earlier books include Uncivil Wars: Political Campaigns in a Media Age.
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"China's Soft Power Efforts toward Taiwan"
- Stanley Rosen | Professor | Department of Political Science | University of Southern California
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Stanley Rosen teaches political science at USC and for six years served as director of the East Asian Studies Center. Rosen has written on a wide range of subjects, from his early work on the Cultural Revolution to his work on education, film, and soft power. His most recent books are Art, Politics and Commerce in Chinese Cinema (ed. with Y. Zhu) and Chinese Politics: State, Society and the Market (ed. with P. Gries). Rosen is co-editor of the journal Chinese Education and Society.
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"The Last Link in the Cross-Strait Chain"
- Charles I-hsin Chen | Research fellow at the Institute of Taiwan-America Studies (DC)
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Charles Chen received his PhD in economics on topic of the privatisation in China from SOAS in 2014. Before joining the Centre of Taiwan Studies as a Research Associate, he once worked as Parliamentary aide, Presidential staff, spokesman of the ruling Kuomintang party, and spokesman of Presidential Office in Taiwan. He is also a postdoctoral fellow in Centre for Rising Powers, POLIS, University of Cambridge. His writings of editorials, columns, commentaries and letters are regularly published on Taiwan and foreign newspapers.
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3:00 - 03:15 pm | Break
3:15 - 4:30 pm | Panel II
“How Serious are Beijing’s Threats?”
- Derek Grossman | Senior Defense Analyst | RAND Corporation
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Derek Grossman is a senior defense analyst at the RAND Corporation focused on a range of national security policy and Indo-Pacific security issues. Grossman has over a decade of experience in the Intelligence Community (IC) and worked at the National Security Agency (NSA) where he pioneered a new assessment format to enhance NSA's intelligence support to policy. He also served at the CIA and on the President's Daily Brief staff. Grossman holds an M.A. from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in U.S. national security policy and received his B.A. with Honors from the University of Michigan in political science and Asian Studies.
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“Love From the US: How Should Taiwan Understand the Support of the U.S.? “
- Kwei-Bo Huang | Vice Dean | College of International Affairs | National Chengchi University
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Kwei-bo Huang is Vice Dean at College of International Affairs and Associate Professor of Department of Diplomacy, National Chengchi University (NCCU) in Taiwan. He was founding director of NCCU's International Master's Program in International Studies (IMPIS). Between 2009 and 2011, he was chairman of the Research and Planning Committee at Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was a Fulbright visiting scholar at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University (2008) and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for East Asian Policy Studies (2012). He earned an M.A. in political science from the George Washington University and a Ph.D. in international relations from University of Maryland at College Park.
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Comment & Closing
- Clayton Dube | Director | U.S.-China Institute | University of Southern California
