Hearing: China's Military Modernization and the Cross-Strait Balance

February 6, 2004

AGENDA

OPENING REMARKS

• OPENING STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN ROGER W. ROBINSON, JR.
• OPENING STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN RICHARD D’AMATO.
• OPENING STATEMENT BY COMMISSIONER ROBERT ELLSWORTH
• OPENING STATEMENT BY COMMISSIONER LARRY WORTZEL

Administration views – U.S.-China-Taiwan trilateral relationship

• Richard P. Lawless, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Asian & Pacific Affairs
• Randy Schriver, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (Remarks)

Panel 2: Taiwan Relations Act: Adequacy of Consultation

• Ambassador Harvey Feldman, Senior Fellow for Asian studies at the Heritage Foundation (Remarks)
• Dennis Hickey, Professor University Fellow in Research ,Southwest Missouri State University (Remarks)
• John F. Copper, Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis (Remarks)

Panel 3: Chinese Arms/Weapons Purchases and Supporting Infrastructure

• RICHARD D. FISHER, JR. Senior Fellow at the Jamestown Foundation(Remarks)
• Dr. David M. Finkelstein, CNA Corporation's Center for Strategic Studies
• Evan Medeiros, RAND Corporation

Panel 4: Military trends in the Cross-strait relationship

• Jason E. Bruzdzinski, Senior Professional Staff The MITRE Corporation (Remarks)
• Vincent Wei-cheng Wang, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, and Advisor of the Asian Studies Program, University of Richmond
• DR. LYLE GOLDSTEIN,Associate Professor of Naval Warfare Studies at the Naval War College
• William Murray, Retired Commander and research fellow at the Naval War College