Taiwan and the U.S.-China Relationship:  Hard Realities and Inconvenient Truths

David Firestein, president and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations and longtime friend of the MSU community, will peel back the veneer of well-worn diplomatic language employed by both the United States and China, discuss what he refers to as the “hard realities and inconvenient truths” associated with the issue of Taiwan in the U.S.-China relationship, and offer his assessment regarding the prospects for cross-Strait relations and U.S.-China relations.