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发帖数: 3619 | 1 Taiwan's Sunflower Movement: A New Political Landscape
Friday, June 27, 2014 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM
University of California Washington Center (next to CSIS)
1608 Rhode Island Ave. NWWashington, DC 20036
From March 18th through April 10th 2014, several hundred students from
universities around Taiwan entered the country's Legislative Yuan, and
occupied the main chamber in protest against passage of legislation on a
Trade Service Agreement with China.
The protest gained broad support among the island's population, and prompted
a rally by some 500,000 in front of the Presidential Office on March 30th.
The occupation ended after Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng agreed to send
the legislation back to the Legislative Yuan committee for a clause-by-
clause review.
What were the underlying reasons for the protest? What are the implications
for Taiwan's domestic politics, with local elections coming up in late 2014
and presidential and legislative elections in early 2016? What are the
implications for cross-Strait relations, foreign policy, and regional
security? Join us for a discussion on these topics.
9:30 am Registration, coffee and refreshments
10:00 am Opening: Mark Kao, President Formosan Association for Public
Affairs
10:05 am Panel I: Motivating Factors and Domestic Political
Implications
Panelists: Chun-ta Lee
Sunflower movement student leader
Don Rodgers
Prof. of Political Science, Austin College, Texas
Vincent Wang
Prof. of Political Science, University of Richmond, Virginia
Moderator: Gerrit van der Wees
Editor, Taiwan Communiqué
11:15 am Panel II: Implications for Cross-Strait Relations and Regional
Security
Panelists: Randall Schriver
President and CEO, Project 2049 Institute
Patrick Cronin
Senior Director, Asia-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New American
Security
Moderator: Joanna Yu Taylor
Director, China and the Pacific Program, Center for the National Interest
12:15 pm Concluding remarks |
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