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China Forum – Taiwan-Japan
fishing agreement: Implications for regional security?

      It is my pleasure to invite you to the upcoming China Forum to be held at the Lowy Institute for International Policy on Thursday, 16 May 2013. The China Forum is a joint initiative between the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) at Australian National University and the East Asia Program at the Lowy Institute for International Policy.

       The May China Forum will feature a discussion with Dr Chong-Pin Lin of Taiwan’s National Defense University about the implications for regional security following the recent landmark agreement betweenTaiwan and Japan. The agreement defined their respective fishing rights in the East China Sea, including around the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyutai islands. These islands are administered by Japan, but the governments in Tokyo, Beijing and Taipei all regard the islands as their sovereign territory. The islands are at the centre of heightened tensions between Beijing and Tokyo.

Details of the event are as follows:

Date: Thursday, 16 May 2013

Time: 3.00pm – 5.00pm (refreshments will be served)

Place: Lowy Institute for International Policy

          Level 1, 31 Bligh Street, Sydney

RSVP: By Friday, 10 May by email to events@lowyinstitute.org

Best Regards,

Linda Jakobson

Director, East Asia Program

Lowy Institute for International Policy

Dr Chong-Pin Lin is currently Adjunct Professor at the Graduate Institute of Strategic Studies at Taiwan’s National Defense University. He served for eight years in the government of the Republic of China, including Deputy Defense Minister and the First Vice Chairman of the ministerial-level Mainland Affairs Council. He has authored numerous books, most recently Global Shift: Exploring the Roots of Rising Disasters (2012). Dr Lin obtained a doctorate in government from Georgetown University in the United States and has held teaching and research positions in Taiwan and the United States.