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Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China with Eyck Freymann

April 20, 2026
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
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School of International and Public Affairs, 420 West 118th Street, Room 918, New York, NY 10027

Taiwan is where the uneasy peace between the United States and China will be tested--and possibly broken. Beijing believes that "reunification" is inevitable. American military strength has preserved peace and stability for decades, but its advantages are eroding. Beijing has found critical gaps in U.S. strategy and is working to squeeze, isolate, and coerce Taiwan into submission without firing a shot. If deterrence fails, the consequences of a Taiwan crisis would be catastrophic--plunging the global economy into chaos, shattering U.S. alliances, and allowing China to dominate the region and reshape the world order.

'Foreign Agents: National Identity Politics and the Making of China’s External Others, 1895-Present' with Yinan He

April 13, 2026
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
School of International and Public Affairs, 420 West 118th Street, Room 918, New York, NY 10027

In June 2019, as massive street protests shook Hong Kong, Chinese state media framed the opposition not as legitimate domestic dissidents, but as a “traitorous gang” and “scum of the nation” colluding with “Western anti-China forces.” This rhetoric reflects a century-long pattern in modern China: political elites’ strategic linkage of internal adversaries with external foes to consolidate power during critical phases of state- and nation-building.