AGENDA
Hearing on "Deterring PRC Aggression Toward Taiwan"
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Virtual via Webex
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10:30 AM – 10:40 AM: Opening Remarks: Hearing Co-Chairs Commissioner Goodwin [Opening Statement] and Commissioner Talent [Opening Statement]
10:40 AM – 12:10 PM: Panel I: The Cross-Strait Military Balance
- Lonnie Henley, retired Defense Intelligence Officer for East Asia at the Defense Intelligence Agency and Adjunct Professor, George Washington University [Testimony]
- Fiona Cunningham, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University [Testimony]
- Michael Hunzeker, Assistant Professor, George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government [Testimony]
12:10 PM – 1:10 PM: Lunch Break
1:10 PM – 2:40 PM: Panel II: Political Calculations Underlying Cross-Strait Deterrence
- Oriana Skylar Mastro, Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, AEI [Testimony]
- Kharis Templeman, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University [Testimony]
- Mark Cozad, Senior International Defense Researcher, RAND Corporation [Testimony]
2:40 PM – 2:50 PM: Break
2:50 PM – 4:20 PM: Panel III: U.S. Policy and Cross-Strait Deterrence
- Thomas Shugart, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security [Testimony]
- Bonny Lin, Political Scientist, RAND Corporation [Testimony]
- David Keegan, retired Foreign Service Officer and Adjunct Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies [Testimony]
- STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD: Shelley Rigger, Brown Professor of Political Science at Davidson College [Testimony]
4:20 PM – 4:25 PM: Closing Remarks
4:25 PM: Adjourn
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