January 29th – AIA kicks off the new year with a lecture by Dr. Philip Hultquist of the University of New Mexico’s Global and National Security Policy Institute. As mainland China’s rapidly modernizes its military, the Trump Administration faces the increasing challenges of maintaining its “strategic ambiguity” deterrence policy over Taiwan. This talk will discuss the history of the US-PRC-Taiwan relationship, the current policy of “strategic ambiguity,” and the approach the US Indo-Pacific Strategy has taken to maintain effective deterrence. Dr. Hultquist will analyze the strengths and weaknesses of US Taiwan strategy from Biden to Trump 2.0 and provide recommendations to rise to the China challenge in the Taiwan Strait.

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