Roundtable Discussion: Assessing the state of EU-Taiwan relations

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With the high-level political debate between President Ma Ying-jeou and selected EU Parliamentarians on 29 September 2015 as a backdrop, this roundtable will assess and discuss the current state of EU-Taiwan relations and their underlying rationales.


Topics

  • What is the current status and key aspects of the EU-Taiwan relation?
  • How do we understand the recent developments in the Taiwan-China relation and what lie ahead?
  • What are the underlying (national and cultural) rationales behind the internal Taiwan-China debate?
  • What do Taiwanese students think about the Taiwan-China relationship?

Speakers

  • Bertel Heurlin, Professor, Department of political science, University of Copenhagen
  • Clemens Østergaard, Senior Research Fellow, NIAS-Nordic Institute for Asian Studies
  • Camilla T.N. Sørensen, Assistant Professor, Department of political science, University of Copenhagen

  • Ida Risskov Sørensen, Student, China Studies, University of Copenhagen

Moderator: Jørgen Delman, Professor, Department of cross-cultural and regional studies, University of Copenhagen

Background material
Watch the political debate between President Ma and selected EU Parliamentarians (video-podcast). Original URL: https://hievent.hinet.net/2015oopeur/index_e.html

Registration
The roundtable is open to the public and participation is free of charge.

Registration closed.