On Monday, December 15, at 2:30 p.m. ET, the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub will launch a report by Global China Hub Associate Director Kitsch Liao and nonresident fellows Nik Foster and Santiago Villa on China’s approach to flipping Taiwan’s diplomatic partners, and the possibility of US-Taiwan cooperation on enhancing Taiwan’s international presence.

Taiwan’s diplomatic partners play an important role as part of deterrence against China. Beijing knows this and has been actively coercing countries to derecognize Taiwan.

This event will assess how Taiwan’s diplomatic partners contribute to peace and stability in and around the island, and what the United States and its allies can do to maintain, and potentially even bolster, this critical aspect of deterrence. It marks the culmination of a year-long research project made possible through the generous support of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States (TECRO).

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opening remarks

The Hon. Raja Krishnamoorthi
United States Representative (D-IL-08)
Ranking Member, House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party

Speakers

Johnson Chiang
Deputy Representative
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States

Samantha Custer
Catherine M. Kelleher Fellow in Cooperative Security
University of Maryland School of Public Policy

Parsifal D’Sola
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Global China Hub
Atlantic Council

Nik Foster
Nonresident Fellow, Global China Hub
Atlantic Council

Kitsch Liao
Associate Director, Global China Hub
Atlantic Council

Moderated by

Melanie Hart
Senior Director, Global China Hub
Atlantic Council

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