Join the East Asia Center as welcome Richard C. Bush, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, who specializes on the East Asia region, particularly China and Taiwan, for a talk entitled "China's Hong Kong and Taiwan Problems: A Semi-Leninist Policy Meets Popular Response." Our event will be held Friday, March 25, from 3:15-5:00 p.m. in Monroe 130. 

Dr. Bush served for nineteen years in the U.S. government, first on the staff of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives (1983-1995); as National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and member of the National Intelligence Council (1995-97); and then as Chairman and Managing Director of the American Institute in Taiwan, the instrumentality through which the U.S. government conducts substantive relations with Taiwan in the absence of diplomatic relations (1997-2002).

Dr. Bush joined The Brookings Institution in 2002 as a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Northeast Asia Policy Studies. He has held the Michael H. Armacost Chair and the Chen-fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies. While at Brookings he published At Cross Purposes: U.S.-Taiwan Relations, 1942-2000; Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait; A War Like No Other: The Truth About China’s Challenge to America (co-authored with Michael O’Hanlon); The Perils of Proximity: China-Japan Security Relations; Uncharted Strait: The Future of China-Taiwan Relations; and Hong Kong in the Shadow of China: Living with the Leviathan. In April 2021, the Brookings Institution Press published his Difficult Choices: Taiwan’s Quest for Security and the Good Life.

This event is co-sponsored by UVA Global and the Miller Center.