Events: Formosa Foundation Ambassador Program and South China Sea Workshop

The Formosa Foundation is taking applications for its annual Ambassador Program. "Up to 30 college/graduate students and young professionals will be selected from theUnited States and Taiwan to participate in this highly competitive “congressional boot camp.” Academia Sinica has a workshop Jan 12-13 on the South China Sea. See more info by clicking READ MORE below....

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2012 Ambassador Program
The Formosa Foundation is accepting applications for the 2012 Ambassador Program from now through March 15, 2012. The 2012 Program will take place in Washington, D.C. from June 18 through 29. Up to 30 college/graduate students and young professionals will be selected from theUnited States and Taiwan to participate in this highly competitive “congressional boot camp.”

Application forms are now available. The U.S. applicants please complete the 2012 U.S. Application Form; Applicants who are currently in Taiwan and/or are Taiwanese national please use the 2012 TW Form.

The Ambassador Program, in its 10th year, has over 250 future leaders graduate and held over a thousand meetings with individual members of Congress and their staff.  With each passing year the program has grown stronger, attracting not only some of the foremost authorities on Taiwan and Asia-Pacific issues from across America, but also garnering the attention of powerful lawmakers as well. The Ambassador Program teaches skills to help change the hearts and minds of our elected leaders and policymakers in Washington on the most critical issues concerning Taiwan. Formosa Foundation ambassadors have received praises as being Capitol Hill's most articulate and effective advocates for the U.S.-Taiwan bilateral relations.

Detailed program description and previous program reports are available on our website.

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There is a two-day workshop on the South China Sea Jan 12-13th at the Academia Sinica. Registration info is here.


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Workshop on the South China Sea Dispute:
Political and Security Implications for the Region’s Future
Date: Thu.-Fri., January 12-13, 2012
Venue: Room 2319, Institute of Ethnology Building, Academia Sinica, Taipei
Organizers: Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies of Academia Sinica (Taipei) and
East-West Center (Honolulu)
Draft Agenda
DAY 1, JAN. 12 (Thu.)
08:30-09:00 Registration
Opening & Keynote Speech
09:00-09:40 Moderator: Cheng-Yi Lin, Executive Officer, CAPAS, RCHSS,
Academia Sinica
Speaker: Yann-Huei Song, Research Fellow, Institute of European
and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Session I: Geography, Law, and the SCS Dispute
09:40-10:20 Moderator: Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, Institute of Sociology,
Academia Sinica
Presenter: Clive Schofield, Australian National Centre for Ocean
Resources and Security (ANCORS), University of Wollongong
Topic: Untangling a Complex Web: Understanding the Competing
Maritime Claims in the South China Sea
Discussant: Kuan-Hsiung Wang, Graduate Institute of Political
Science, National Taiwan Normal University
10:20-10:40 coffee break
Session II: China and the SCS
10:40-12:00 Moderator: Tse-Kang Leng, Institute of Political Science, Academia
Sinica
Presenter: Li Mingjiang, Rajaratnam School of International Studies,
Nanyang Technological University
Topic: China Debates South China Sea Policy: Implications for
Future Developments of the Dispute
Discussant: Alexander Chieh-Cheng Huang, Graduate Institute of
International Affairs and Strategic Studies, Tamkang University
Presenter: Richard Hu, Dept. of Politics and Public Administration,
University of Hong Kong
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Topic: China's Rising Power and Its Policy on the South China Sea
Disputes
Discussant: Fu-Kuo Liu, Institute of International Relations, National
Chengchi University
12:00-13:00 lunch break
Session III: Japan, the US and the SCS
13:00-14:20 Moderator: Ping-Yin Kuan, International Master’s Program in
Asia-Pacific Studies, National Chengchi University
Presenter: Denny Roy, East-West Center
Topic: US Interests and Policy in the South China Sea
Discussant: Wen-Cheng Lin, College of Social Sciences, National
Sun Yat-sen University
Presenter: Yoichiro Sato, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Topic: The SCS Dispute from the Perspective of Japan
Discussant: Shawn S.F. Kao, Dept. of Political Science, Tunghai
University
14:20-14:40 coffee break
Session IV: Regional Overview
14:40-16:00 Moderator: Nien-Tsu Alfred Hu, The Center for Marine Policy
Studies, National Sun Yat-sen University
Presenter: Carl Thayer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defense Force
Academy
Topic: The South China Disputes and Their Impact on the Security
Environment of Southeast Asia: What Lies Ahead?
Discussant: Hsin-Chih Chen, Dept. of Political Science, National
Cheng Kung University
Presenter: Ian Storey, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore
Topic: The Southeast Asian Subregional Response to the Problem of
China's Expansive SCS Claim
Discussant: Arthur Ding, Institute of International Relations,
National Chengchi University
DAY 2, JAN. 13 (Fri)
08:30-09:00 Registration
Session V: National Perspectives
9:00-10:20 Moderator: Jaushieh Joseph Wu, Institute of International Relations,
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National Chengchi University
Presenter: Cheng-Yi Lin, CAPAS, Academia Sinica and Anne
Hsiu-An Hsiao, Institute of International Relations, National
Chengchi University
Topic: Taiwan’s SCS Policy, 1999-2011
Discussant: Denny Roy, East-West Center
Presenter: Hoang Anh Tuan, Institute for Foreign Policy and
Strategic Studies, The Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs of Vietnam
Topic: The SCS Dispute from the Perspective of Vietnam
Discussant: Tuan-Yao Cheng, Institute of International Relations,
National Chengchi University
10:20-10:40 coffee break
Session VI: National Perspectives (continued)
10:40-12:00 Moderator: Wen-Chin Chang, Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies,
Academia Sinica
Presenter: Elina Noor, Institute of Strategic and International Studies
(ISIS ) Malaysia
Topic: The South China Sea: Options for Malaysia
Discussant: Alice Ba, Dept. of Political Science & International
Relations, University of Delaware
Presenter: Aileen Baviera, Asian Center, University of the
Philippines
Topic: Philippine Security and the South China Sea Disputes
Discussant: Ian Storey, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,
Singapore
12:00-13:00 lunch break
Session VII: China, the US, and the Region’s Future
13:00-14:20 Moderator: Chung-Young Chang, Dept. of Public Affairs, Fo-Guang
University
Presenter: Alice Ba, Dept. of Political Science & International
Relations, University of Delaware
Topic: The SCS Dispute and the Likely Future Relationship between
China and Southeast Asia
Discussant: Richard Hu, Dept. of Politics and Public Administration,
University of Hong Kong
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Presenter: Yann-Huei Song, Institute of European and American
Studies, Academia Sinica
Topic: The South China Sea Issue in U.S.-ASEAN Relations: 2009 –
2011
Discussant: Carl Thayer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences,
The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defense Force
Academy
Session VIII: Wrap-up
14:20-15:00 Group discussion of editorial issues and guidelines for revising the
chapters
15:00- Adjourn


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