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Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars presents a talk by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker on how the key leaders from all sides have affected cross-Strait issues.

When:
October 13, 2009 4:00pm to 5:00pm
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The U.S.-Taiwan-China relationship has been among the world's most complicated for over sixty years. Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, professor of history at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, will discuss how the backgrounds and personalities of key leaders from all sides have affected cross-Strait issues.

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker is professor of history at Georgetown University and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and a Wilson Center senior scholar. In 2007 she received a National Intelligence Medal of Achievement for distinguished meritorious service as the first assistant deputy director of national intelligence for analytic integrity and standards and analytic ombudsman in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. She is the author and editor of several books, including Dangerous Strait: The U.S.-Taiwan-China Crisis, and most recently, Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China.

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