President Ma Ying-jeou has been invited by Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) to participate in a videoconference that will be held at 9:00 a.m. on June 3 Taipei time (6:00 p.m. on June 2 US Pacific time). The AV feed of the president will be shown in Stanford's Bechtel Conference Center, where numerous outstanding academics from the Western United States will also be participating.
The videoconference will be moderated by former US Secretary of Defense William J. Perry, and the panelists will include Thomas Fingar, former Chairman of the National Intelligence Council; Karl Eikenberry, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and former Deputy Chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Military Committee; and Lanhee J. Chen, David and Diane Steffy Research Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and chief policy adviser to the 2012 U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The moderator and panelists all have extensive experience in administrative agencies, and are distinguished academics in their respective fields of American international politics, foreign affairs, and security. The president will deliver a keynote speech focusing primarily on the solid partnership between the ROC and the United States dating back to World War II, and the role that Taiwan plays in regional security. After his speech, the president will take questions from the panelists and members of the audience at Bechtel Conference Center.
This will be the sixth videoconference for the president to exchange opinions about ROC-U.S. relations and regional issues with important American opinion leaders. Last year, the president engaged in a videoconference with the U.S. Center for Strategic and International Studies. The president's address during the upcoming videoconference, and his interaction with the members of the audience, will undoubtedly promote understanding among people from various sectors in the United States about the current state of ROC-US relations, cross-strait relations, and the ROC's efforts to promote regional peace. It will also highlight the longstanding friendship and close cooperative relationship between the ROC and the United States.
The upcoming videoconference will be streamed live on both the Chinese (www.president.gov.tw) and English (http://english.president.gov.tw) websites of the Office of the President. To watch the live stream via our English website, click on the "Bulletin Board" tab near the lower right-hand corner of the home page, then click on the link to the videoconference, and it will play automatically. In addition, Radio Taiwan International (RTI) will also broadcast the videoconference live in both Chinese and English.