Cross-Strait Relations: Present Challenges and Future Developments

Keynote Remarks:

Chen Ming-tong, Mainland Affairs Council Minister, Republic of China (Taiwan)

Introduced by: Bridgett Wagner, Vice President, Policy Promotion, The Heritage Foundation

Host: Walter Lohman, Director, Asian Studies Center, The Heritage Foundation

Panel 1: Taiwan-US-China Relations and the Situation of the Taiwan Strait

I-Chung Lai, President, The Prospect Foundation

Bonnie Glaser, Senior Adviser for Asia, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Richard Bush, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Dean Cheng, Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation – Moderator

Remarks by The Honorable Jonathan Moore

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Bureau of International Organization Affairs US Department of State

Panel 2: China Sharp Power against Taiwan and U.S.

Wen-Cheng Lin, President, Foundation on Asia-Pacific Peace Studies

Puma Shen, Assistant Professor, Graduate of Criminology, National Taipei University

Mark Stokes, Executive Director, Project 2049

Dan Aum, Director of the Washington, D.C. Office, The National Bureau of Asian Research - Moderator

Panel 3: Chinese Domestic Politics and Its Impacts on Taiwan-U.S.-China Relations

Ho-Fung Hung, Prof. in Political Economy, Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University

Yun Sun, Director of the China Program, Stimson Center

Cheng-Yi Lin, CEO, Institute for National Defense and Security Research

I-Chung Lai, President, The Prospect Foundation – Moderator

Panel 4: Cross-Strait Economic Relations and the US-China Trade War

Ming-Fang Tsai, Professor, Department of Industrial Economics, Tamkang University

Rupert Hammond-Chambers, President, US Taiwan Business Council

Riley Walters, Policy Analyst, The Heritage Foundation

Walter Lohman, The Heritage Foundation – Moderator