A Conversation on Taiwan: Michael Fonte

Date:

Thursday, November 3, 2022

Time:

12:00 PM

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1:30 PM

Info

Join the SCRC as we welcome Mike Fonte, Director of the Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Mission in Washington, DC, as he talks about the DPP and Taiwan-U.S.-China relations with adjunct lecturer in China Studies at SAIS, Prof. David Keegan.

**Chinese lunch will be provided.**

Event Guests

Michael Fonte

Director at Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party Mission in the U.S.

Michael Fonte is the Director at the Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party Mission in the U.S., as of June 2013.

Dr. David Keegan

Adjunct Lecturer of China Studies

David J. Keegan is an adjunct lecturer in the Chinese Studies Program at Johns Hopkins SAIS. He currently also teaches area studies courses on China, Northeast Asia, and the Pacific at the StateDepartment Foreign Service Institute. Previously, Keegan served as a Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. State Department for thirty years, specializing in China, Taiwan, and the Asia Pacific region. He served in Jamaica, Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, and New Zealand, and was Deputy Director of the American Institute in Taiwan and Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé at the U.S. Embassy in New Zealand. Keegan has published “The Taiwan RelationsAct: StillEssential in Changing Times” with the Wilson Center and holds a Ph.D. in Chinese History from the University of California, Berkeley.