NY Videoconference: Taiwan's Future

Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Speaker
Annette Hsiu-lien Lu
Vice President, Taiwan
Presider
Jerome A. Cohen
Professor, New York University School of Law; Adjunct Senior Fellow for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Meeting

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