IEAS - Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

"Presidential Elections on Taiwan and Cross-Strait Relations: Prospects and Perspectives"

DATE:Wednesday, April 5, 2000
TIME:9:00am - 6:00 pm
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Shorenstein Seminars on Contemporary East Asia
SPONSOR:Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies

8:30 am - 9:00 am

Coffee and Refreshments

9:00 am - 10:00 am

Opening Remarks

Wen-hsin Yeh, UC Berkeley

Keynote Address

Hung-mao Tien, Institute for National Policy Research, Taiwan

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

The Coming of Divided Government in Taiwan: Cohabitation or Deadlock
Chia-lung Lin, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan

Prospective of Taiwan-China Economic Cooperation
Po-chih Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Commentators:
Thomas Gold, UC Berkeley
Ming-cheng Lo, UC Davis

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Luncheon Address

Robert Scalapino, UC Berkeley

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Presidential Election in Taiwan in 2000 and Cross-Strait Relations
Shih-hsiung Chow, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

The Prospects for Cross-Strait Relations
Chih-cheng Lo, Soochow University, Taiwan

Commentators:
Lowell Dittmer, UC Berkeley
Suisheng Zhao, Hoover Institution

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Roundtable Discussion

Barnett Baron, The Asia Foundation
Chia-lung Lin, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Hung-mao Tien, Institute for National Policy Research, Taiwan
Frederic Wakeman, UC Berkeley
Wen-hsin Yeh, UC Berkeley

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