Democracy, Good Governance And Pluralism | 2020 Conference | Panel 5

Monday, October 26, 2020
Hoover Institution

CHAIR: Lanhee Chen (Hoover Institution)
DISCUSSANT: Larry Diamond (Hoover Institution)

• The Indo-Pacific Transparency Initiative meets the Belt and Road
Lavina Lee, Macquarie University

• Tackling Local Clientelism and Corruption: Taiwan’s experience
Chin-shou Wang, National Cheng Kung University

• Countering Sharp Power: Lessons from Taiwan
Kharis Templeman, Hoover Institution

MEET THE PANELISTS
Dr. Lanhee Chen is David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution. A veteran of four US presidential campaigns, he is also the Director of Domestic Policy Studies and Lecturer in the Public Policy Program at Stanford University.

Dr. Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He chairs Hoover’s projects on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region and China’s Global Sharp Power. A renowned expert on democracy, he is the author of Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency.

Dr. Lavina Lee is a senior lecturer in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University. She is the author of US Hegemony and International Legitimacy: Norms Power and Followership in the Wars on Iraq.

Dr. Kharis Templeman is a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution. Formerly, he led the Taiwan Democracy and Security Project (TDSP) in the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) at Stanford. He is co-editor of Dynamics of Democracy in Taiwan: The Ma Ying-jeou Years.

Dr. Chin-shou Wang is professor of political science at National Cheng Kung University. His research focuses on judicial politics.

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I wish the media was held to the high standards of the Hoover Institution.

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You know the Taiwan voters woke up and refuse unification by voting the democratic progressive party one more time in 2020 because the one country two system in hk has demonstrated a failure. Freedom and democracy was taken away, , political reform was totally a disaster. How could Taiwanese put themselves into the same shoes after you saw what happened in hk?

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There is no such a thing that the Chinese model like the Chinese leader said. This is literally an authoritarian regime that was originated from maxism from soviet union and then evolved in China by Maoism later added a partial capitalism in its authoritarian economic model with a communism ideology and called it a Chinese characteristic model. You just look at how chaotic the whole thing is, it’s a never moving stock market ( by the way stock market is the western thing), and a totalitarian governances, then you know that is nothing creative and new, it’s only something that copied a bit from the capitalism in economy ( by the way capitalism is a western thing too) plus a little bit communism in politics. Finally mixed up together and they called it the Chinese model! It’s the copy cat, not innovative at all!