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China, Taiwan , and the U.S.: A Coming Conflict? Session Two

Moderator: Stephen W. Van Evera
Stephen W. Van Evera Thomas J. Christensen Harvey Feldman Chas W. Freeman Jr.: February 25, 2002; Running Time: 01:31:07

About the Lecture

About the Lecture

Professor Thomas Christensen
Ambassador Chas Freeman
Ambassador Harvey Feldman
Q&A

Lecture Details

Location: Wong Auditorium/Tang Center

About the Speakers

Moderator: Stephen W. Van Evera

Professor of Political Science at MIT Associate Director, Center for International Studies

Stephen W. Van Evera is an Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT. A specialist in international affairs and security studies, he has written on American foreign and defense policy, nationalism and war, military policy and the causes of war, and social sciences methodology. His books include Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict and Guide to Methods in Political Science.

Stephen W. Van Evera

Professor of Political Science at MIT Associate Director, Center for International Studies

Thomas J. Christensen

Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT

Thomas J. Christensen is Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT. A China specialist, he focuses on Chinese foreign and security policy and East Asian international relations. He is the author of the book Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, 1947-58 and articles in the journals International Security and World Politics. His current research addresses relations among the United States, China, and Japan in the Cold War and post-Cold War eras, as well as the role of ideology and nationalism in Chinese foreign policy and grand strategy.

Harvey Feldman

Senior Fellow for Asia at the Heritage Foundation

Harvey Feldman is currently Senior Fellow for Asia at the Heritage Foundation. An East Asian specialist and former US Ambassador, he served in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. As a member of the State Department Policy Planning Staff, he helped plan President Richard Nixon's epochal trip to China. He later served as Director of the Office of Republic of China Affairs and was one of the drafters of the Taiwan Relations Act. After retiring from the Foreign Service, he was Vice President of the Institute for East-West Security Studies and taught at New York University. He is the editor of two books, Taiwan in a Time of Transition and Constitutional Reform and The Future of the Republic of China, and the author of articles in the journals Asian Survey and The National Interest.

Chas W. Freeman Jr.

Chairman of Projects International Co-Chair of the US-China Policy Council

Chas W. Freeman, Jr., a former career officer in the U.S. Foreign Service, is Chairman of Projects International and Co-Chair of the US-China Policy Council. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Director of Chinese Affairs at the State Department, as well as Deputy Chief of Mission in Beijing. He has held the position of Distinguished Fellow at the United States Institute for Peace and the Institute for National Strategic Studies. He is the author of articles and monographs on US-China-Taiwan relations in the journals Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy and with Stanford University's Asia/Pacific Research Center, as well as books on diplomacy. Ambassador. Freeman is the recipient of the Presidential Meritorious Service Award, the Distinguished Public Servant Award and has been elected to the American Academy of Diplomacy.