Hearing: China's Military Modernization and the Cross-Strait Balance | U.S.- CHINA | ECONOMIC and SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION

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February 6, 2004

Longworth House Office Building
Room 1310

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OPENING REMARKS

Administration views – U.S.-China-Taiwan trilateral relationship

Richard P. Lawless, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Asian & Pacific Affairs
Randy Schriver, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (Remarks)

Panel 2: Taiwan Relations Act: Adequacy of Consultation

Ambassador Harvey Feldman, Senior Fellow for Asian studies at the Heritage Foundation (Remarks)
Dennis Hickey, Professor University Fellow in Research ,Southwest Missouri State University (Remarks)
John F. Copper, Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis (Remarks)

Panel 3: Chinese Arms/Weapons Purchases and Supporting Infrastructure

RICHARD D. FISHER, JR. Senior Fellow at the Jamestown Foundation(Remarks)
Dr. David M. Finkelstein, CNA Corporation's Center for Strategic Studies
Evan Medeiros, RAND Corporation

Panel 4: Military trends in the Cross-strait relationship

Jason E. Bruzdzinski, Senior Professional Staff The MITRE Corporation (Remarks)
Vincent Wei-cheng Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, and Advisor of the Asian Studies Program, University of Richmond
DR. LYLE GOLDSTEIN,Associate Professor of Naval Warfare Studies at the Naval War College
William Murray, Retired Commander and research fellow at the Naval War College

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