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Time: 14:30-17:00, Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Venue: Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica. Attendees will join online. The link for the symposium is at https://asmeet.webex.com/asmeet/j.php?MTID=mf00bee1aca8d26af50708c9525f478b7
Organizer: Chien-Huei Wu, Research Fellow (Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica)
Chair: Cheng-Yi Lin (Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica)
Discussants:
1. Yu-Jie Chen (Assistant Research Fellow, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica)
2. Ronan Tse-Min Fu (Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica)
3. James Lee (Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica)
4. Thung-Hong Lin (Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica)
Webpage: https://www.ea.sinica.edu.tw/SeminarList.aspx?t=2
Contact: Miss Liao, +886-2-3789-7222, layoutniao@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Introduction:
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed at Taipei Songshan Airport on the evening of August 2, and led her congressional delegation to visit Taiwan and made public itineraries on August 3, attracting the attention of the international community. In response to Pelosi's Taiwan visit, aside from announcing to stop importing many products from Taiwan, China also held live-fire drills in six sea and airspaces around Taiwan for three consecutive days starting August 4, aggravating the already intense situation in the Taiwan Strait.
With the Russian-Ukrainian war that began in early 2022, and now the recent Taiwan Strait crisis, it is obvious to see that China is bound to use new means in dealing with U.S.-Taiwan-China relations and geopolitics. This symposium will explore and discuss Taiwanese society’s reaction to Pelosi’s Taiwan visit and China’s military exercises, Taiwanese political parties’ response on U.S. foreign policy, and the implications of this incident for Taiwan’s democracy and the free world.