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SUMMARY:Assessing Developments in Tibet and Taiwan: Implications for Beijing
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:<p>Join a panel of UCSD China specialists to examine the recent unrest in Tibet and the outcome of the Presidential election in Taiwan and the implications for the leadership in Beijing.&nbsp; The speakers will consider the political, geo-strategic, security, socioeconomic and religious dimensions of these two events and whether they represent a major challenge to the authority of the Chinese state.&nbsp;<br />=0d=0a<br />=0d=0a<br />=0d=0a<br />=0d=0a<strong>Susan Shirk</strong> is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and professor of political science. Shirk first traveled to China in 1971 and has been doing research there ever since. During 1997-2000, Shirk served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs, with responsibility for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia.&nbsp; She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial &ldquo;track-two&rdquo; forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia and the Koreas. Shirk served as a member of the U.S. Defense Policy Board, the Board of Governors for the East-West Center (Hawaii), the Board of Trustees of the U.S.-Japan Foundation, and the Board of Directors of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and an emeritus member of the Aspen Strategy Group. As Senior Adviser to The Albright Group, Shirk advises private sector clients on China and East Asia.<br />=0d=0a<br />=0d=0a<strong>Tai Ming Cheung</strong> is a research fellow and research coordinator at IGCC. His responsibilities include managing the institute's track two program the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), which brings together senior foreign ministry and defense officials as well as academics from the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, and Russia for informed discussions on regional security issues. He also teaches at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at UCSD.&nbsp; Cheung is a long-time analyst of Chinese defense and national security affairs. He was based in Asia from the mid-1980s to 2002 covering political, economic, and strategic developments in greater China. He was also a journalist and political and business risk consultant in northeast Asia. He received his Ph.D. from the War Studies Department at King's College, London University in 2006.<br />=0d=0a<br />=0d=0aClick <a href=3d"/about/how-to-find-us.htm">here</a> for directions and maps to IR/PS.</p>
LOCATION:Robinson Building Complex Auditorium
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