FPRI Asia Program Conference
China Rising: Assessing China’s Economic and Military Power

China’s Rise and the Cross-Strait Issue: Taiwan and U.S.-PRC Relations

March 12, 2007, Philadelphia, PA

John J. Tkacik Jr., Heritage Foundation

Commentators:

Moderator:

John J. Tkacik Jr. is Senior Research Fellow in Asian Studies at the Heritage Foundation with a research focus on U.S. policies toward China (including Hong Kong and Macao), Taiwan, and Mongolia. Mr. Tkacik is a retired diplomat who served overseas with the U.S. Foreign Service in Taiwan, Iceland, China and the former British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, as well as in the Department of State in Washington, D.C. He is the editor and main contributor to Rethinking One China (Heritage, 2004).