5th Annual International Symposium: "The Challenge of a Rising China and US-China Competition/Cooperation in Asia Pacific"

June 1-2, 2007

Location: Hotel, Restaurant & Tourism Management Building, Room 229
2044 East Evans Ave., Denver, CO 80208
Contact person: Yvette Peterson (303) 871-4474
For website and registration form please click here

friday, June 1

8:30-9:00a.m.

                                    Hotel, Restaurant & Tourism Management Building, Room 229
                                    2044 East Evans Ave., Denver, CO 80208

9:00-9:20a.m.             Welcome Remarks

Gregg Kvistad, Provost, University of Denver

Tuan-yao Cheng, Director, Institute of International Relations

Tom Farer, Dean, Graduate School of International Studies, DU

Jack Chen, Director General, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office, Kansas
            City

Sam Zhao, Executive Director, CCUSC

9:20-9:30a.m.                 Break

9:30a.m.-11:00a.m.     Panel One

China’s Rise and transformation of US-China Relations

Chair: Sam Zhao, University of Denver

The U.S. - China Relationship:  Why Is Getting It Right So Hard?

Robert Hathaway, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Worldviews of China’s Fourth Generation Leadership and Their Implications for Sino-US Relations

Chien-min Chao, Sun Yat-sen Graduate Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, National Chengchi University

Discussant: Brantly Womack, W.W. Dept of Govt. and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia

11:00-11:10am            Break

11:10a.m.-12:30p.m.   Panel two

regional Implications of China’s Rise

Chair: Tuan-yao Cheng, National Cheng-chi University

China's Energy Security with Special Reference to Japan

Haider Khan, GSIS, University of Denver

The Rise of China and Its Implications for US-Taiwan Relations

Cheng-yi Lin, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica

Discussant: Robert Ross, Boston University

12:30-1:30p.m.                Lunch

1:30-3:20p.m.             Panel Three

China, US, Japan and Asian Security

Chair: Parris Chang, Ex-Deputy Secretary General, National Security Council, Taiwan

A Rising Unknown: Rediscovering the China in Japan’s East Asia

Chih-Yu Shih, National Taiwan University

Sleeping Single in a Double Bed: The Japan Factor in Sino-American Relations

Steven Levine, University of Montana's Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center

China's Rise and the Durability of US Leadership in Asia

Robert Sutter, Georgetown University

Discussant: Wen-cheng Lin, National Sun Yat-sen University

3:20-3:40p.m.             Break

3:40-5:20p.m.             Panel four

North Korea and Taiwan Issues

Chair: Paul Viotti, University of Denver

The North Korea Nuclear Issue and Sino-US Relations

Bonnie Glaser, International Security Program, CSIS

Asymmetric Triangles and the Washington-Beijing-Taipei Relationship

Yu-Shan Wu, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica

Brantly Womack, W.W. Dept of Govt. and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia

Discussant: Tuan-yao Cheng, National Cheng-chi University

 6:00-9:00p.m.             Welcome Reception and dinner

Dinner Speaker: Hon. Joseph Wu, Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the US

*The Reception and Banquet will be held in the Renaissance rooms in the Mary Reed building across the gardens from the HRTM building. 

saturday, June 2

9:00-10:30a.m.            Panel Five

Russia and Central Asia Issues

Chair: Wen-cheng Lin, National Sun Yat-sen University

Triangular Relations in the New Millennium

Christopher Marsh, J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, Baylor University

A New Great Game in Central Asia

Lowell Dittmer, Dept. of Political Science, University of California Berkeley

Discussant: Parris Chang, Ex-Deputy Secretary General, National Security Council, Taiwan

10:30-10:50a.m.          Break

10:50a.m.-12:40p.m.   Panel Six

The Taiwan Issue

Chair: Robert Ross, Boston College

Institutionalizing Status Quo across the Strait: a Constructivist/Institutionalist Perspective

Der-Yuan Wu, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University

Why the Bush Administration has turned against Taiwan: Six Theories

John Copper, Department of International Studies, Rhodes College

Between Identity Politics and Risk Aversion: The Social Construction of Taiwanese Nationalism since 2003

S. Philips Hsu, Department of Political Science, National Taiwan University

Discussants: George W. Tsai, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University

Paul Viotti, University of Denver

12:40-1:00p.m.           Concluding Remarks