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February 5, 2024

Taiwan
Virtual Roundtable: Debriefing the Taiwan Elections With Syaru Shirley Lin

The closely watched 2024 Taiwan presidential election recently concluded with the winning of Lai Ching-te, current vice president of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party. In the legislature, howev…

Play Syaru Shirley Lin and Jerome A. Cohen discuss the outcomes of the Taiwan elections

February 27, 2024

Asia
Taiwan’s 2024 Election Outcomes: Balancing Domestic Challenges and International Relations

This blog post originated from a recent discussion by Professor Syaru Shirley Lin in the Winston Lord Roundtable Series on Asia, the Rule of Law, and U.S. Foreign Policy, where she debriefed the rece…

Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te, of Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) gestures as he attends a rally following the victory in the presidential elections, in Taipei, Taiwan January 13, 2024.

November 14, 2018

Economics
U.S. Economic Security and the Future of Work

Council on Foreign Relations 11/14 Academic Conference Call on U.S. economic security and the future of the American workforce.

Podcast

November 7, 2019

China
C.V. Starr & Co. Annual Lecture on China: The U.S.-China Technology Competition

Panelists discuss the U.S.-China technology competition, including China’s advances in the field, U.S. universities’ competition and collaboration with China, and the concerns of the U.S. business co…

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September 10, 2014

Sub-Saharan Africa
Africans Coming to New York

Henry Louis Gates estimates that altogether about four hundred and fifty thousand Africans were brought to what is now the United States as part of the Atlantic slave trade, legal and illegal (legal …

Africa Immigrants in NYC

February 3, 2021

Transition 2021
Transition 2021 Series: U.S. Strategy Shifts in Climate and Energy Policies

Panelists discuss the direction of U.S. climate and energy policies under the incoming Biden administration, from climate mitigation and adaptation strategies to regulating fossil fuel emissions and …

Play Wind turbines harnessing the natural green energy in the Scottish Borders on 28th December 2020 in Galashiels, Scotland, United Kingdom. The wind farm, Longpark Wind Farm, is long established and part of the renewable energy production in Scotland. The farm sits in the hills above the village Stow, near Galashields in the Scottish Borders. In between the wind turbines sheep grass in the fields lightly covered by snow.