The Pernicious Impact of China’s Anti-Secession Law

Hudson Institute’s China Center and United Microelectronics Corporation founder Robert Tsao will host a conference with experts and policymakers to analyze the People’s Republic of China’s 2005 anti-secession law. The law poses a grave threat to global stability, commerce, free and democratic institutions, and, most of all, Taiwan’s right to self-determination. The conference will promote an international awareness of the law’s far-reaching significance and pernicious impact.

The conference will feature Seventieth Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), former Director of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States (TECRO) Political Division Vincent Chao, and more.

Agenda

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Registration

8:40 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Welcome Remarks

• John P. Walters, President and CEO, Hudson Institute

8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Opening Remarks 

• Mike Pompeo, Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute and Seventieth US Secretary of State

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | The Anti-Secession Law and Its Impact on Taiwan and Regional and Global Peace

• Sen. Tom Cotton, United States Senator, Arkansas
• Robert Tsao, Founder, United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC)
• Sen. Marsha Blackburn, United States Senator, Tennessee

10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Panel: The Anti-Secession Law’s Legal Ground and Illegality

• Yu-Jie Chen, Assistant Research Professor, Law Institute of Academia Sinica, Taiwan and Nonresident Affiliated Scholar, US-Asia Law Institute, New York University School of Law
• Margaret Lewis, Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Seton Hall University
• Donald Clarke, Professor of Law and David A. Weaver Research Professor, George Washington University

Moderator

• Miles Yu, Senior Fellow and Director of the China Center, Hudson Institute

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Lunch

12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. | An Australian Perspective: A Conversation with Hon. Scott Morrison

• Scott Morrison, Thirtieth Prime Minister of Australia 

Moderator

• Miles Yu, Senior Fellow and Director of the China Center, Hudson Institute

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Panel: Securing Peace in the Indo-Pacific—How to Counter China’s Anti-Secession Law

• Vincent Chao, Taipei City Council
• Heino Klinck, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, East Asia 
• Bonny Lin, Director, China Power Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Moderator

• Miles Yu, Senior Fellow and Director of the China Center, Hudson Institute