Debriefing the Taiwan Elections

The closely watched 2024 Taiwan presidential election recently concluded with the winning of Lai Ching-te, current vice president of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party. In the legislature, however, no political party gained a majority.

In this Winston Lord Roundtable Series on Asia, the Rule of Law, and U.S. Foreign Policy sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, Syaru Shirley Lin, Founder and Chair of the Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation (CAPRI), discusses the implications of the presidential and legislative elections in terms of its changing social, political, and economic complexion and Taiwan’s future relations with the United States and China.

The virtual roundtable was presided by Jerome A. Cohen, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations and a distinguished expert on Chinese law who is known for his significant contributions to legal education and human rights in Asia, especially in China and Taiwan.

When:

February 5, 2024
4:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m. (EST)

Where:

Virtual (by invitation only)

Speaker

Syaru Shirley Lin, Founder and Chair, Center for Asia-Pacific Resilience and Innovation; Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Presider

Jerome A. Cohen, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia, Council on Foreign Relations

Read the transcript of Syaru Shirley Lin’s remarks at CAPRI website