Policy Roundtables

Roundtable on Taiwan Elections and Implications for Cross-Strait and U.S.-Taiwan Relations

Vincent Wang, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science, Adelphi University; Margaret Lewis, Professor of Law, Seton Hall University; David Rank, Senior Fellow, Yale Jackson Institute of Global Affairs; Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania.

On January 11, the incumbent Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party won the presidential election by a landslide, and the DPP retained its legislative majority.  Tsai and the DPP won in a…

Technology Issues in US-China Relations

Professor Zhou Hanhua, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Samm Sacks, Council on Foreign Relations; Mark Cohen, UC Berkeley School of Law; Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania.

Zhou Hanhua is a professor of law and…

Roundtable on US-China Relations and Taiwan Issues

Xiamen University Delegation

The Hong Kong Protests: A Roundtable Discussion

Michael Davis, Senior Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asia Institute, Columbia University; Victoria Hui, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Norte Dame; Jacques deLisle, Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania; Avery Goldstein, David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations.

China and the Environment: Challenges at Home and Agendas Abroad

FPRI Panel Discussion

Terry Cooke, Founder and Executive Director, China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia, and Senior Fellow, FPRI; author of Sustaining U.S.-China Cooperation in Clean Energy.

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End of China's One-Child Policy

Feinian Chen,Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland; Yong Cai, Associate Professor of Sociology, UNC Chapel Hill; Feng Wang, Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine

In October 2015, China announced the plans to abolish the one-child policy which had restricted the majority of Chinese families to only one child for the last 35 years. All Chinese couples are now allowed to have…

The 19th CCP Congress and Elite Politics

Policy Roundtable

Andrew Nathan, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University;  Joseph Fewsmith III, Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Damien Ma, Fellow and Associate Director, Paulson Institute.

In October 2017, the Chinese Communist Party held its 19th Congress. The Congress named Xi Jinping to the Party’s top post for a second 5-year term, selected a Politburo and a seven-member Politburo Standing…

Law in Polarised Societies: Hong Kong and China

Michael Hor, Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong; Simon Young, Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong; Fu Hualing, Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong; Sun Haochen, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hong Kong

Twenty years ago, Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule under an arrangement that promised “one country, two systems.”  Today, the relationship between Hong Kong and Mainland China are often contentious, and a source of…

China-Taiwan Relations in the Tsai Ing-wen Era

Chas Freeman, Career US Diplomat; Richard Bush, Senior Fellow, Brooking Institution; Shelley Rigger, Professor of Political Science, Davidson College; Jacques deLisle, Professor of Law, Univ. of Pennsylvania

In 2016 Tsai Ing-wen, candidate from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), was elected President of Taiwan. Following eight years under a Kuomintang (KMT) president who had actively promoted closer relations…

China and the South China Sea Disputes: Recent Developments and Prospects

Jacques deLisle, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania; Peter Dutton, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College; Bonnie Glaser, Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic & International Studies; Michael McDevitt, Rear Admiral, United States Navy (Ret.), Senior Fellow, Center for Naval Analyses; Taylor Fravel, Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT.