Roundtable Title: Transnational Collaboration & Taiwan's Challenges

Hosted by The Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Roundtable Title: Transnational Collaboration & Taiwan's Challenges

The Context for Collaboration in Asia & Beyond: A View from Taiwan
Chih Fa (Jeffrey) Wang, The Brookings Institution

Chih Fa (Jeffrey) Wang is currently a Taiwan Diplomacy Fellow at The Brookings Institution’s Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies. Previously, he held posts at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taiwan as the Executive Secretary of the NGO Affairs Committee and the Section Chief of the Department of International Organizations. He was also the Director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York.

U.S. Perspectives on Transnational Collaboration & Taiwan
Cobb Mixter, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs

Cobb Mixter serves on the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs as the Professional Staff Member responsible for East Asia and Pacific issues. Previously, he was the lead Asia Analyst for Lehman Brothers’ Business Intelligence Group in New York and a research associate in the Asia Studies Program of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Cross-Border Health Issues & Taiwan
Bonnie Glaser, Center for Strategic & International Studies

Bonnie Glaser is currently Senior Associate of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. She is a board member of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Glaser has served as an Asian affairs consultant for the Department of Defense, Department of State and Sandia National Laboratories, as well as other U.S. government agencies. She has written extensively on Chinese threat perceptions and views of the strategic environment, along with related topics.

Discussant: Fu-Kuo Liu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

Fu-Kuo Liu is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, Foreign Policy Studies, and is also an Associate Research Fellow and Adjunct Associate Professor at National Chengchi University’s Institute of International Relations. In addition, he serves as the Executive Director of the National Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Taiwan. Previously, Dr. Liu served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was a Consultative Advisor for the Mainland Affairs Council. He has taught at the Chinese Culture University and National Chung Shing University.

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