How international politics and grand strategies can impact on regional stability?

This question was asked to four of the speakers  who participated in the annual conference of the Ifri's Center for Asian Studies.

• Renato C. de CASTRO's point of view (Professor and Charles Lui Chi Keung Chair in China Studies, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines).

•  Shingo YAMAGAMI's point of view (Director General (Acting), Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), Tokyo, Japan).

• Renwei HUANG's point of view (Vice President and Research Professor, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China).

• Kao-cheng WANG's point of view (Professor, Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies, and Dean, School of International Studies, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan).

Welcoming Remarks:
09:45-10:15

• Thomas GOMART, Director of Ifri
• Alain RICHARD, Senator, Val-d’Oise (Ile-de-France), former Minister of Defense of France
• Ming-zhong ZHANG, Representative, Taipei Representative Office in France

Morning Session

Discussion on key developments in Asian regional affairs and geopolitics
10:15-12:15

• Renato C. de CASTRO, Professor and Charles Lui Chi Keung Chair in China Studies, De La Salle University, Manila

• Renwei HUANG, Vice President and Research Professor, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai

• Heungho MOON, Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies, and Director of Institute of Chinese Studies, Hanyang University, Seoul

• Kao-cheng WANG, Professor, Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies, and Dean, School of International Studies, Tamkang University, Taipei

• Shingo YAMAGAMI, Director General (Acting), Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA), Tokyo

Interactive discussion led by François PICARD, Host/Presenter of The Debate for France 24

Lunch break
12:15-13:45

Afternoon sessions
chaired by Françoise Nicolas, Director, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri
 

Panel 1. Europe and Asia’s stability
13:45-15:15

Discussion on competing grand strategies in Asia and how France and Europe formulate diplomacy towards the region in a context of rising tension, instability and a shifting regional balance of power

• Gudrun WACKER, Senior Fellow, Asia Research Division, German Institute of International and Security Affairs (SWP)

• Frédéric LAPLANCHE, Counselor for Asia and the Americas to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, France

• Michael REITERER, Senior Advisor, Asia-Pacific Department, European External Action Service (EEAS)

Panel 2. Taiwan after the elections – Cross-strait and regional impacts
15:30-17:00

• Alice EKMAN, Research Fellow, Head of China Research, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

• Kao-cheng WANG, Professor, Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Strategic Studies, and Dean, School of International Studies, Tamkang University

• Chih-chung WU, Professor, Department of Political Science, Taiwan Soochow University