Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Affairs Elizabeth Freund Larus
Elizabeth Freund Larus, professor emerita of political science and international affairs, has been invited to speak at the 2025 Polyglot Conference in Taipei, November 10-12. Larus will offer her Chinese-English bilingual presentation “How to Prepare for Public Speaking in a Foreign Language — Lessons from Learning to Speak Mandarin,” to more than 400 teachers, interpreters, translators, students, scholars, language bloggers, linguists and writers, from some 60 countries. Larus speaks Mandarin Chinese and is studying Taiwanese.
Other media mentions for Larus include:
Analysis-China Likely to Take Wait-and-See Approach to Taiwan After Recent Election (RTI Novosti)
Larus suggests that Beijing would likely continue military sorties into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone and later carry out naval exercises near the island closer to Lai’s inauguration in May.
US experts believe negotiations with China will continue despite Trump’s new tariffs (RTI News)
Larus noted that both countries have time to soften their positions before November 1 and the APEC summit, where the planned meeting between Trump and Xi is scheduled to take place. Read more.
Setting the tone for US-China relations is difficult, and the “dominance test” between Xi Jinping and Trump continues (BBC News)
Larus told BBC Chinese that China’s leaders may be able to see through Trump’s vanity and vulnerabilities, but they may also have misjudged him: “Trump gets along well with strong male leaders until they test his patience, at which point he will strike back fiercely. Zhongnanhai should also take note of this.” Read more.