"One China" and Taiwan's Future
“One China” and Taiwan’s Future
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM (Eastern Daylight Time)
Wednesday, September 29, 2021 9:00 PM - 10:30 PM (Taipei Time)
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A Conversation with Faculty Director Emeritus Jerome A. Cohen and Professor Yu-Jie Chen
About the Event
Beijing’s “One-China Principle” is the bedrock of its policy toward Taiwan. A majority of Taiwanese, however, disagree with any “one China” concept that implies Taiwan is part of the People’s Republic of China. Regardless of legal status, most people in Taiwan want to remain a self-governing liberal democracy. Our speakers — Jerome A. Cohen, founder and faculty director emeritus of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, and Yu-Jie Chen, a USALI affiliated scholar and assistant research professor at Taiwan’s Academia Sinica — will talk about what “one China” means on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, Taiwanese attitudes towards their own identity and whether a peaceful solution can be found to this increasingly dangerous dispute.
About the speakers
Yu-Jie Chen is an assistant research professor at the Law Institute of Taiwan’s Academia Sinica and an affiliated scholar at USALI. Her research focuses on human rights and international law and relations, particularly in the context of China, Taiwan, and China-Taiwan relations. Professor Chen received her J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from NYU School of Law. She also holds an LL.M. and LL.B. from National Chengchi University in Taiwan. She was an inaugural Global Academic Fellow at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law (2019-2020). She has been a research scholar at USALI, a researcher and advocate for the non-governmental organization Human Rights in China, and an attorney at the Taipei-based international law firm Lee and Li.
Jerome A. Cohen is professor emeritus at NYU School of Law and founding director emeritus of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute. He is a leading American expert on Chinese law and government. A pioneer in the field, Professor Cohen began studying and teaching about China’s legal system in the early 1960s and from 1964 to 1979 introduced the teaching of Asian law into the curriculum of Harvard Law School. Professor Cohen is an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has published hundreds of scholarly articles and edited several books about Asian law, specifically focusing on legal institutions, criminal justice reform, dispute resolution, human rights, and the role of international law relating to China and Taiwan.