Relationship between china and taiwan. From the Global Taiwan Institute this is just over hour. All right. Okay. Well good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Global Taiwan Institute. My name is russell hsiao, im the executive director here at gti. Gti is a 501 c 3 thinktank dedicated to taiwan policy research and analysis. Our mission is to enhance the u. S. Taiwan relationship through public education. We undertake several major programs that include a weekly publication called the global taiwan with brief, where we invite experts to contribute timely articles. We also have a Seminar Series that you are all participating in today where we invite practitioners as well as scholars to focus on current developments related to policy issues that affect the u. S. Taiwan relationship. Coming up very shortly we will be hosting our inaugural annual symposium on september 14th and this is going to be our flagship event. Were expecting a large turnout of people within government as well as acad
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The kenyan election will go ahead. The polls open on thursday morning. The polls open on thursday morning. The Supreme Court was supposed to rule on a petition to support in the vote, but five out of the seven judges didnt show up for the hearing earlier which brought us to this point. That leads us the only judges present. That is the two of us. Judges present. That is the two of us. And acts 1632 of the constitution, this matter cannot be held this morning. We were given a number of reasons for the no shows. One was ill, another unable to get a flight back in time and two were just unable to come to court. Only the deputy chief had a concrete reason as her bodyguard ended up in hospital yesterday after a shooting. So no ruling from the court meant that the Electoral Commission could give the go ahead. De son assurances given by this commission, based on the progress made in the commission, the elections are scheduled to go ahead tomorrow, the 26th of october 20 17. All of this means
Discussion. Theres going theres going to be pressure from the bottom up. People cannot live under those conditions. The chinese know this, the chinese know and there are real worries about the chinese and about what that instability will lead to in terms of them. So that that leads me to my third point, that is, when we talk about china, its not getting china involved, china is very involved with the consequences. It may have its own agenda about what it wants to do this. The question is, besides pressure on china, and we have heard a lot what are the ways of partnership with china lacks what do you see as opportunities at this moment to be dealing with . Thank you very much. Very insightful thoughts and questions. If there is no other Opening Statements im going to move to the panel first of all introducing three great experts on this issue. First is the Senior Adviser and the chair of the center for study jack and International Studies. Its good to see you again. A the Senior Researc
Understand like myself were a federal prosecutor focused on fraud type of batters. I was for 16 years. And in your finding that you undertook of the arb its my understanding that you felt and this is quoting, your most important finding was the oversight of the arb recommendations at the highest levels within the department. Is that correct . Thats correct. And what highest level were you referring to . Release of the deputy secretary level. And in your opinion is that where the implementation of the arb recommendations stands at this point . The. That remains an unresolved recommendation. We did receive revisions to the Foreign Affairs manual yesterday and we are looking at them now. And so there, that recommendation was made by the aig and the Foreign Affairs manual she specifically state to other employees of the department that these recommendations will be undertaken by the deputy at a minimum secretary of state or highest level like the deputy secretary . That is correct. You sta