MIC will host a panel discussion to debrief the Taiwan presidential election, including the controversy over the results, the key issues and historical context as well as the long-term implications for Taiwan, China and the U.S. Panel members will include Dr. Hong Yang, director of the University of Minnesota China Center; journalist Carl Goldstein, who spent ten years as a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review; Richard Kagan, professor of History at Hamline University and author of Chen Shui-bian: Building a Community and a Nation; and Catherine Born, MIC deputy director and one of the 250 international delegates invited by Taiwan to observe the election process.

This program is co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota China Center, which strives to be a statewide catalyst and resource for the promotion of educational, economic, governmental, and civic pursuits between Minnesota and mainland China and Taiwan.