12/6/2021 | Shedding Taiwan’s ‘Invisibility Cloak’: Global and Regional Prospects

As we pass the 50th anniversary of United Nations Resolution 2758 which seated the People’s Republic of China at the UN, what are Taiwan’s prospects for gaining greater international space? How has the constrained diplomatic environment for Taiwan evolved most recently and how does the global and regional landscape look multilaterally and otherwise today?

The Sigur Center for Asian Studies presents a Roundtable featuring Liang-Yu Wang, Deputy Representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S. and two leading experts from Asia and U.S., Pasha Hsieh and Michael Mazza.

Speakers

Liang-Yu Wang
Deputy Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S. (Since Jan. 2021)

Experience

• Director General, Bureau de Genève, Délégation Culturelle et Économique de Taipei (2018-Jan. 2021)
• Deputy Director General, Department of International Organizations, MOFA (2016-2018)
• Deputy Director, Political Division, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States(TECRO) (2014-2016)
• First Secretary, Political Division, TECRO (2011-2014)
• Section Chief, APEC Task Force, Department of International Organizations, MOFA (2006-2009)
• Secretary, Political Division, TECRO (2000-2006)
• Officer, Department of International Organizations, MOFA (1997-2000)

Education: MC/MPA, Harvard Kennedy School

Pasha L. Hsieh is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean (Faculty Matters & Research) at the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law. He received J.D. and LL.M. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He also holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Free University of Brussels. Prior to academia, he served as a Legal Affairs Officer at the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat and as an associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP. He is the Managing Editor of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs. Hsieh has been invited by various institutions such as the European Parliament and the Singapore Judicial College to present on trade law issues. Hsieh’s co-edited book, ASEAN Law in the New Regional Economic Order: Global Trends and Shifting Paradigms, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019.

Michael Mazza is a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the Global Taiwan Institute, and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He analyzes U.S. defense policy in the Indo-Pacific region, Chinese military modernization, cross-Taiwan Strait relations, Korean Peninsula security, and U.S. interests in Southeast Asia. Mazza writes regularly for the Global Taiwan Brief, GTI’s biweekly publication, and he has contributed to numerous AEI studies on American grand strategy in Asia, U.S. defense strategy in the Asia-Pacific, and Taiwanese defense strategy. His published work includes pieces in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, and Foreign Affairs. Twitter: @mike_mazza

Moderator

Deepa M. Ollapally is Research Professor of International Affairs and the Associate Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University. She directs the Rising Powers Initiative which tracks foreign policy debates in major powers of Asia and Eurasia.

She is a specialist on Indian foreign policy, India-China relations, Indo-Pacific regional and maritime security, and comparative foreign policy outlooks of rising powers and the rise of nationalism in foreign policy. Ollapally is the author of five books including Worldviews of Aspiring Powers (Oxford, 2012). Her current research focuses on maritime and regional security in the Indo-Pacific. She is currently writing a book on Big Power Competition for Influence in the Indo-Pacific. She has won grants from Carnegie Corporation, MacArthur Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Asia Foundation for work related to India and Asia.

Ollapally has held senior positions in the policy world including US Institute of Peace; and National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.