Taiwan and China: On the Brink of War?

Fri, Nov 19 2021, 2:45 - 4pm
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Provocative Chinese military flights near Taiwan recently have raised tension in the Taiwan Strait and drawn international concern (and the attention of John Oliver, who covered this on his Oct. 24th show).  Is this a harbinger of a Chinese attack?  If not, what is going on now between China and Taiwan? Is China’s Xi Jinping talking of “peaceful reunification” while preparing for future war?  What does this mean for the U.S.?   

Join the Asian Studies Program and the Department of International Languages and Cultures  for a lecture by

David G. Brown

Affiliated Scholar, China Studies, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19

2:45 P.M. IN THE MARGARET BRENT CLASSROOM

or via Zoom: https://smcm.zoom.us/j/87988137675 (Meeting ID: 879 8813 7675; Passcode: 177453)

Dave Brown is an affiliated scholar in the China Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). From 1999 to 2016, He served first as Associate Director of Asian Studies and then as an adjunct professor in the China Studies program at SAIS.  Before joining SAIS, he served for over thirty years as a Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. State Department.  His diplomatic career began with an assignment to Taipei and included postings to Tokyo, Beijing, Hong Kong and Saigon as well as tours in Vienna and Oslo.  After leaving government, he worked during 1996-98 as Senior Associate at the Asia Pacific Policy Center, a non-profit institution in Washington, and served as the Chair of the East Asian Area Studies course at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute from 1998 to 2000.

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Asian Studies Program, Department of International Languages and Cultures
Charlie Musgrove
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