The 8th Annual Conference on

China-EU Relations and the Taiwan Question

A workshop jointly organized by
Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS)
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
With the friendly support of the Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, Stuttgart

June 23 - 25, 2011, Tongli (Jiangsu)

Agenda

Thursday, June 23

18:00

Reception Dinner

Friday, June 24

09:30

Opening Remarks
Yang Jiemian
Gudrun Wacker

09:50

Group Photo

10:00

Session I: Development of China-EU Relations & Impact on the Cross-Strait Relations
Chairperson: Zhou Hong
Speakers: (10 minutes each)
Feng Zhongping, »The EU's New China Policy and the Future of Bilateral Ties«
Franz Jessen
Ye Jiang
Gudrun Wacker

10:40

Coffee Break

11:00

Discussion
Chairperson: Mathieu Duchâtel

12:00

Lunch (Howard Café, 3rd Floor)

14:30

Session II: The Peaceful Development and Prospect of the Cross-Strait Relations
Chairperson: Christopher Dent
Speakers:
Xu Shiquan
Jean-Pierre Cabestan, »Taiwan's Deteriorating Security Environment and its Impact on Cross-Strait Relations«
Shao Yuqun
Linda Jakobson, Reflections on the long-term implications of Ma Ying-jeou's policy of »Don't rock the boat«
Christopher Hughes, »Reassessing the Taiwan Relations Act as an International Regime«

15:10

Discussion
Chairperson: Ye Jiang

16:20

European participants meeting with Vice Minister of TAO (Venue: tba)

17:00

Speech given by Deputy Director of TAO (Tea House Jingsi Garden)
Q&A

18:30

Dinner (Jingsi Garden Club)

Saturday, June 25

09:00

Session III: Evaluation of Political and Economic Development of Taiwan
Chairperson: Feng Zhongping
Speakers:
Yan Anlin, »Taiwan's Political Configuration Facing 2012«
Mathieu Duchâtel, »The DPP's Cross-Strait Policy under Tsai Ying-wen and the 2012 elections in Taiwan«
Yu Xintian, »The Mainland's Taiwan Policy over the Last Year - Progress and Tendencies«
Christopher Dent, »The China-Taiwan Economic Co-operation Framework Agreement (ECFA): What it Currently is, and What it Could Potentially Become«

09:40

Discussion
Chairperson: Linda Jakobson

10:40

Coffee Break

10:50

Session IV: Policy Recommendations towards China-Europe Relations and the Cross-Strait Relations
Chairperson: Jean-Pierre Cabestan
Speakers:
Liu Guoshen, »The Impact of Public Opinion Surveys in Taiwan on its Internal Politics and Cross-Straits Relations«
Christopher Hughes
Zhou Hong

11:30

Discussion
Chairperson: Chen Dongxiao

12:00

Wrap-up by:
Gudrun Wacker
Yang Jiemian

12:15

Working Lunch (Howard Café, 3rd Floor)

Afternoon

Excursion trip

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SWP-Studien

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G20, IWF und WTO in turbulenten Zeiten

Legitimität und Effektivität auf dem Prüfstand
Christoph Harig, Claudia Zilla
Brasilien als »Emerging Donor«

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