Taiwan Roundtable: "Winners or Losers in the TPP? Taiwan, Its Neighbors, and the United States"

Sponsored by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Thursday, March 26, 2015
Lunch: 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Panel: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW, Lindner Commons - Room 602
Washington, DC 20052

RSVP at http://go.gwu.edu/tpp2015.

This Roundtable gives renewed attention to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) after the pace of the flagging free trade agreement picked up last Fall. Negotiators have reportedly pledged to reach at least a partial agreement by early 2015. Panelists will discuss how and why the TPP matters for Taiwan, its key neighbors, and its ally, the U.S.

With:

Mireya Solís, Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies and senior fellow at the Brookings Center for East Asia Policy Studies. An expert in Japan’s foreign economic policies, Solís earned a Ph.D. in government and an M.A. in East Asian studies from Harvard University, and a B.A. in international relations from El Colegio de México. Her main research interests include Japanese politics, political economy and foreign policy; international and comparative political economy; international relations; and government-business relations. She also has interests in broader issues in U.S.-Japan relations and East Asian multilateralism.

Shihoko Goto, Senior Northeast Asia associate at the Woodrow Wilson Center's Asia Program, where she is responsible for research, programming, and publications on Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. She is also a contributing editor to The Globalist, and a fellow of the Mansfield Foundation/Japan Foundation U.S.-Japan Network for the Future for 2014 to 2016. Prior to joining the Wilson Center, she spent over ten years as a journalist writing about the international political economy with an emphasis on Asian markets. As a correspondent for Dow Jones News Service and United Press International based in Tokyo and Washington, she has reported extensively on policies impacting the global financial system as well as international trade. She currently provides analysis for a number of media organizations.

Derek Scissors, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies Asian economic issues and trends. In particular, he focuses on the Chinese and Indian economies and US economic relations with China and India. He is author of the China Global Investment Tracker. Scissors is also an adjunct professor at George Washington University, where he teaches a course on the Chinese economy. Before joining AEI, Scissors was a senior research fellow in the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation. He has also worked in London for Intelligence Research Ltd., taught economics at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, and served as an action officer in international economics and energy for the US Department of Defense.

Moderated by:

Deepa Ollapally, Research Professor of International Affairs and Associate Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the Elliott School, GW.