From the Art of the Possible to the Art of the Deal? US-Taiwan-PRC Relations under the New Administration
Politics has been defined as the art of the possible, and nowhere has this dictum been more true than in the relations among the United States, the People’s Republic of China, and Taiwan. Political, economic, and military factors constraining all three governments’ freedom of action favor incremental change over big breakthroughs, leaving all three with varying degrees of frustration.
President Trump has promised breakthroughs in these relationships, and his words have already affected the other players’ strategic calculations. Can he make deals with the PRC that change the fundamentals of US-China relations? If so, what will Taiwan’s role in that deal-making be?
Date: Wednesday, March 8
Location:
The Charlotte City Club
121 W. Trade Street
Charlotte, NC 28202 -Directions
Time:
VIP & General Reception, Networking, and Check-In: 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Lunch & Presentation: 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Cost:
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Biography
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 & 2015). 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). In 2011 she published Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse, a book for general readers. She has published articles on Taiwan’s domestic politics, the national identity issue in Taiwan-China relations and related topics. Her monograph, “Taiwan’s Rising Rationalism: Generations, Politics and ‘Taiwan Nationalism'” was published by the East West Center in Washington in November 2006. Currently she is working on a study of Taiwan’s contributions to the PRC’s economic take-off.
