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At a time when a growing number of regional conflicts have led to further international tensions, the recent phone call between top leaders of China and the U.S. has drawn wide attention to whether the two global powers can inject some stability into the world. Are decades of globalization and relative world peace coming to an end? Are we moving toward a second Cold War and seeing a replay of the 1930s? What is the root cause of global instability? Is it more of economical or political nature? Today on our program we have Professor Da Wei to share his views on the trend of international relations. Professor Da Wei is the director of CISS, Tsinghua University, and we caught up with him on the sidelines of the 6th Forum on Security and Strategy.

45 years into the China-US diplomatic relationship, the two countries have been navigating through some rough waters in recent years. Are the two countries on an inevitable collision course? Can the two countries be in a competition racing to the top, or does it have to be a race to the bottom? Joining us today is Ms. Susan Thornton, a retired senior U.S. diplomat with almost three decades of experience with the US State Department in Eurasia and East Asia. Ms. Thornton is currently a Senior Fellow at the Yale Law School Paul Tsai China Center.

What does a changing world mean to China, especially concerning its relationships with the U.S., Europe, and also neighboring countries such as India? To what extent can China's "high-standard opening up" national policy and its global trade relations help to integrate a more fragmented world? With these questions in mind, CISS spoke with Mr. Zhou Bo on the sidelines of the 6th International Forum on Security and Strategy, organized by CISS, Tsinghua University. Mr. Zhou Bo is a China Forum expert and senior fellow of CISS, Tsinghua University. He also has decades of experience serving in China’s military.

As politicians and scholars from across the world gathered in Beijing in early 2024 to attend various international forums, where they exchange ideas and thoughts about current international relations and ways out for some urgent regional conflicts, I got the chance to bring some of them to our podcast to share their thinking with our listeners. In the following days, we will release interviews with six scholars from China and abroad, conducted on the sidelines of the 6th International Forum on Security and Strategy,which was organized by CISS, Tsinghua University on March 27th, 2024. Joining us today is Dr. Michael Vatikiotis, Senior Advisor at the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue based in Singapore. As we dive deep into the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Ukraine and Afghanistan, as we discuss the role of China and ASEAN countries in propelling dynamic growth in the region, as well as participating in global affairs like combating climate change, hope we’ll all have a better understanding of China’s stance in many international affairs.