Fewsmith Meets With Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen
Joseph Fewsmith, Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, was part of a delegation that met with Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen on January 5, 2017. During the meeting, the delegation discussed the developing relations between Taiwan, China and the United States with President Tsai Ing-wen.
The meeting was detailed in a January 6, 2017 article in The China Post “President Reiterates That Taiwan Stands Firm Against Beijing Pressure.”
From the text of the article:
In the closed-door meeting, Tsai met with delegation members such as Harvard University’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies head of Taiwan studies Steven Goldstein, Boston University International Relations and Political Science Professor Joseph Fewsmith and Boston College Political Science Professor Robert S. Ross.
Tsai previously made similar remarks during a year-end media gathering on Dec. 31, saying that Beijing has slowly returned to old practices such as creating dissent and a fractioned Taiwan, and employing pressuring and threatening tactics.
You can read the entire article here.
Fewsmith is Professor of International Relations and Political Science at 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). Fewsmith travels to China regularly and is active in the Association for Asian Studies and the American Political Science Association. Learn more about him here.