Strengthening Freedom in Asia: A Twenty-First Century Agenda for the U.S.-Taiwan Partnership
A Report of the Taiwan Policy Working Group

The Taiwan Policy Working Group first convened in January 2007 to discuss the status of U.S.-Taiwan political, military, and economic relations. As the United States and Taiwan struggled through one of the relationship’s most difficult years, the working group investigated areas in which a more positive and productive agenda might be forged. Among the questions addressed by the working group were: What could be done to better capitalize on the potential for greater economic and security cooperation between the two countries? How should American and Taiwanese leaders adapt the relationship to better face twenty-first-century challenges? As the United States struggles to define its relationship with other Asian powers, how does Taiwan contribute to American interests in the region?

At this event, the working group’s codirectors, Dan Blumenthal of AEI and Randall Schriver of Armitage International, and several of its members will present and discuss the findings of the report. AEI vice president for foreign and defense policy studies Danielle Pletka will moderate.

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About the Author

 

Claude
Barfield
  • Claude Barfield, a former consultant to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, researches international trade policy (including trade policy in China and East Asia), the World Trade Organization (WTO), intellectual property, and science and technology policy. His many books include Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization (AEI Press, 2001), in which he identifies challenges to the WTO and to the future of trade liberalization.
  • Phone: 2028625879
    Email: cbarfield@aei.org

 

Danielle
Pletka
  • Danielle Pletka is the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at AEI. Before joining AEI, she served for ten years as a senior professional staff member for the Near East and South Asia on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. She writes frequently on national security matters with a focus on domestic politics in the Middle East and South Asia regions, U.S. national security, terrorism and weapons proliferation.
  • Phone: 202-862-5943
    Email: dpletka@aei.org
  • Assistant Info

    Name: Lazar Berman
    Phone: 202-862-5872
    Email: lazar.berman@aei.org

 

Dan
Blumenthal
  • Dan Blumenthal is a current commissioner and former vice chairman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, where he directs efforts to monitor, investigate, and provide recommendations on the national security implications of the economic relationship between the two countries. Previously, he was senior director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia in the Secretary of Defense's Office of International Security Affairs and practiced law in New York prior to his government service. At AEI, in addition to his work on the national security implications of U.S.-Sino relations, he coordinates the Tocqueville on China project, which examines the underlying civic culture of post-Mao China. Mr. Blumenthal also contributes to AEI's Asian Outlook series and is a research associate with the National Asia Research Program.
  • Phone: 202-862-5861
    Email: dblumenthal@aei.org
  • Assistant Info

    Name: Lara Crouch
    Phone: 202-862-7160
    Email: lara.crouch@aei.org
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