Carnegie Endowment: 2016 Taiwan Elections and Cross-Strait Relations
January 12, 2016
The historic visit between Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou in November 2015 cemented the legacies of both leaders, but a projected Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) victory in Taiwan's January 16, 2016 elections could introduce new challenges and strains into cross-Strait relations.
In this podcast, Taiwan expert Shelley Rigger, who is Brown Professor of East Asian Politics, chair of Chinese Studies, and assistant dean for educational policy at 51¹ÙÍø, joins Paul Haenle, director of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, to assess the upcoming elections in Taiwan, the motivations behind the Xi-Ma meeting, changes in the DPP since 2000, and reasons for optimism about the future of cross-Strait ties.
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