Taiwan Under Pressure: A Discussion with Andrew Yang on Security issues in East Asia (Taiwan Forum, April 8, 2021)
Join the BU Center for the Study of Asia’s next Taiwan Forum that will explore the rapidly changing security situation in East Asia.
Taiwan Under Pressure: A Discussion with former ROC Minister of Defense
Andrew Yang 楊念祖
Thursday, April 8, 2021 from 9:00-10:30 am ET via Zoom
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Speaker:
Andrew Nien-Dzu Yang 楊念祖 served as Taiwan’s Minister of National Defense in 
2013 and as Deputy Minister of National Defense in 2009–2013. Yang holds degrees from Fu Jen Catholic University and from the London School of Economics and Political Science of the University of London, where he specialized in the study of US-Taiwan-China and national security. His government service, research, and teaching has focused on cross-Strait military relations and regional security.
Yang was a research associate at the Sun Yat-sen Center for Policy Studies of the National Sun Yat-sen University in Kaohsiung in 1986–2000, and adviser for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1998, and for the Mainland Affairs Council and Ministry of National Defense since 2000. He was a lecturer at the National Sun Yat-sen University from 2000–2009, and prior to his appointment as Deputy Minister of National Defense in 2009, Yang served as Secretary-General of the China Council of Advanced Policy Studies, a Taipei-based think tank concentrating on military affairs.
Moderator:
Joseph Fewsmith is Professor of International Relations and Political Science in 
the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University. He is the author or editor of eight books, including, most recently, The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China (January 2013). Other works include China since Tiananmen (2nd edition, 2008) and China Today, China Tomorrow (2010). Other books include Elite Politics in Contemporary China (2001), The Dilemmas of Reform in China: Political Conflict and Economic Debate (1994), and Party, State, and Local Elites in Republican China: Merchant Organizations and Politics in Shanghai, 1890-1930 (1985). He is one of the seven regular contributors to the China Leadership Monitor, a quarterly web publication analyzing current developments in China.
Fewsmith travels to China regularly and is active in the Association for Asian Studies and the American Political Science Association. His articles have appeared in such journals as Asian Survey, Comparative Studies in Society and History, The China Journal, The China Quarterly, Current History, The Journal of Contemporary China, Problems of Communism, and Modern China. He is an associate of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University and the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future at Boston University.
Professor Fewsmith’s areas of expertise include comparative politics as well as Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy.
Commentators:
Robert Ross is Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Associate, John 
King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1984. He has taught at Columbia University and at the University of Washington and in 1989 was a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. In 1994-1995 he was Fulbright Professor at the Chinese Foreign Affairs College, in 2003 he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of International Strategic Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, and in 2014 was Visiting Scholar, School of International Relations, Peking University. In 2009 he was Visiting Scholar, Institute for Strategy, Royal Danish Defence College. From 2009-2014 he has been Adjunct Professor, Institute for Defence Studies, Norwegian Defence University College.
Professor Ross’s research focuses on Chinese security policy and defense policy, East Asian security, and U.S.-China relations. His recent publications include Chinese Security Policy: Structure, Power, and Politics, China’s Ascent: Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics, and New Directions in the Study of Chinese Foreign Policy. His other major works include Normalization of U.S.-China Relations: An International History; Great Wall and Empty Fortress: China’s Search for Security, Negotiating Cooperation: U.S.-China Relations, 1969-1989, and The Indochina Tangle: China’s Vietnam Policy, 1975-1979. Professor Ross is the author of numerous articles in World Politics,The China Quarterly,International Security,Security Studies,Orbis,Foreign Affairs,Foreign Policy,The National Interest, andAsian Survey. His books and articles have been translated in China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and various European countries.
Steven Goldstein is Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith 
College, and Associate, John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. His specializations include Chinese domestic and foreign policy, mainland China-Taiwan relations and US-Taiwan relations. Steven M. Goldstein was the Sophia Smith Professor of Government at Smith College from 1968 to 2016. He is now an Associate of the Fairbank Center and the director of the Taiwan Studies Workshop at Harvard University. He has been a visiting faculty member at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Columbia University and United States Naval War College. Goldstein’s research interest has been largely related to issues of Chinese domestic and foreign policy. He has published studies of Sino-American relations; Sino-Soviet relations; and the emergence of a Chinese Communist view of world affairs. His current research focus is on the relations between the mainland and Taiwan as well as the evolution of U.S.-Taiwan relations.
Several of Prof. Goldstein’s recent podcasts concerning Taiwan can be found at
https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/the-taiwan-elections-of-2018-implications-for-the-future
https://soundcloud.com/harvard/us-china-relations-fairbank-center-60th-anniversary-symposium-panel
Support for the BUCSA Taiwan Forum series is provided by the
Taipei Economic and Cultural Office Boston Education Division,
and the Taiwan Ministry of Education