In this episode of GREAT POWER PODCAST, host AFPC fellow in Indo-Pacific Studies Michael Sobolik speaks with Russell Hsiao, Executive Director of the Global Taiwan Institute, about the history of America's complex relationship with Taiwan, China's ambitions to conquer the island, and the political fate of Taiwan in the coming years.
Guest Biography
Russell  Hsiao is the executive director of GTI, senior fellow at The Jamestown  Foundation, and adjunct fellow at Pacific Forum. He previously served as  a senior research fellow at The Project 2049 Institute and national  security fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Prior to  those positions he was the editor of China Brief at The Jamestown  Foundation from October 2007- to July 2011 and a special associate in  the International Cooperation Department at the Taiwan Foundation for  Democracy. While in law school, he clerked within the Office of the  Chairman at the Federal Communications Commission and the Interagency  Trade Enforcement Center at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.  Mr. Hsiao received his J.D. and certificate from the Law and Technology  Institute at the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of  Law where he served as the editor-in-chief of the Catholic University’s  Journal of Law and Technology. He received a B.A. in international  studies from the American University’s School of International Service  and the University Honors Program.
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