Taiwan's Election and the Agenda Ahead

Speaker: Douglas H. Paal, Director, American Institute in Taiwan

Douglas H. Paal is the Director of the American Institute in Taiwan, the unofficial instrument for U.S. relations with Taiwan. Previously, he was President of the Asia Pacific Policy Center (APPC), a non-profit institution in Washington, D.C., which advocated bipartisan policy in the promotion of trade and investment, as well as defense and security ties across the Pacific. Prior to forming the APPC, Mr. Paal was Special Assistant to President Bush for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asian Affairs on the National Security Council, where he also served in the Reagan Administration. Mr. Paal has worked in the State Department with the Policy Planning Staff and as a senior analyst for the CIA. He also served in the U.S. Embassies in Singapore and Beijing. He studied Asian history at Brown and Harvard Universities and the Japanese language inTokyo. He has published frequently on Asian affairs and national security issues.

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