7/9/2022 | Looking Ahead: Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific Region

As new cooperative measures take shape in the Indo-Pacific through minilateral and multilateral mechanisms led by the United States, what can Taiwan do to integrate further, together with partners or through its own efforts? What are the most pressing challenges in the region and how is Taiwan preparing to meet them? How do the U.S. and major European powers view Taiwan as a partner in their Indo-Pacific strategies?

The Sigur Center and the North American Taiwan Studies Association is co-hosting a hybrid in-person and virtual Roundtable event – with an in-person dinner reception at the Elliott School of International Affairs – to explore these questions with policy and expert views from Taiwan and the United States.

This Roundtable is free and open to the public and media. A recording of the Roundtable will be made publicly available in the days following the event. Additional support for this event is provided by GW East Asia National Resource Center and the Taiwan Education & Research Program.

Panelists

Liang-Yu Wang, Deputy Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S.

Bonnie S. Glaser, Director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States

Moderator

Deepa M. Ollapally, Associate Director, Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Speakers

Liang-Yu Wang (@TECRO_USA) is Deputy Representative, Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S. (Since Jan. 2021). Wang has a wide range of high-level diplomatic experience across the globe. She was 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). Wang has also held positions of 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); and Officer, Department of International Organizations, MOFA (1997-2000).

Bonnie S. Glaser (@BonnieGlaser) is director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was previously senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Glaser is a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum. Glaser has published widely in academic and policy journals, including the Washington Quarterly, China Quarterly, Asian Survey, International Security, as well as in newspapers such as the New York Times and International Herald Tribune. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Glaser received her M.A. with concentrations in international economics and Chinese studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Moderator

Deepa M. Ollapally is a political scientist specializing in Indian foreign policy, South Asian security, India-China relations, and Indo-Pacific regional and maritime security. She also directs the Rising Powers Initiative, a major research program which tracks and analyzes foreign policy debates in aspiring powers of Asia and Eurasia. She is the author of five books and is currently working on a manuscript titled Big Power Competition for Influence in the Indo-Pacific, which assesses the shifting patterns of geopolitical influence by major powers in the region since 2005 and the drivers of these changes. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University.