The Sino-US relationship is now at its lowest point since the two re-established relations. Especially over the past few months, the US government has expressed a desire for comprehensive confrontation with China, and appears willing to do anything to drag the world into another cold war, jeopardizing peaceful development for the world. Faced with the current US stance, how should China respond, while maintaining their own rhythm? This is something the public is very interested in. On August 11, 2020, in an exclusive interview with HAN Hua, member of China Forum Executive Committee, China Vice Foreign Minister LE Yucheng expressed his views.

China Forum: Recently, senior US officials have come out frequently to attack and smear China. Their onslaught has gone far beyond even the wildest imaginations. A handful of US politicians have abandoned fundamental laws and rules, diplomatic norms and political ethics, and have acted in pure political hooliganism. What's your comment on such degenerate practices of US politicians?

Ambassador YUE Xiaoyong, China Forum Expert, Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy, attended the E-Policy Circle 10 themed ‘Stability Redefined’ held by Beirut Institute Summit . The webinar was chaired by Raghida Dergham, Founder and Executive Chairman of Beirut Institute. Sir John Sawers, former MI6 Chief, Brett Mcgurk, former Special Presidential Envoy for the U.S. campaign against the Islamic State and Rania Al-Mashat, Egypt’s Minister of International Cooperation, also participated in the discussion. The webinar was live-streamed on Beirut Institute and Raghida Dergham Facebook pages，and the complete version is available on Beirut Institute YouTube channel as well. Ambassador YUE stressed China is focusing on developing itself and maintaining peaceful and stable relations with all countries. China is firmly committed to upholding multilateralism, which is the key to tackle tough global challenges.

The United States exaggerates China's threat by "telling a bad story about China". Does it really want to promote strategic competition among big powers? What is the real purpose of this narrative war? How can China avoid falling into this trap when the United States tries to discredit China to destroy the international community's trust in China and further promote the decoupling of China from the global industrial chain and supply chain? Han Hua, Executive Committee of China Forum and CGTN commentator, interviewed Zhao Minghao, a special expert from China Forum and Researcher of International Studies Institute of Fudan University.

Could China have done any better at the beginning of the outbreak? Why did the western media, regardless of the facts, try their best to slander China about concealing or underreporting the number of cases? Is China fully prepared for the new wave of the pandemic? Ding Yifan, China Forum Expert and Vice President of the French Branch of European Society of China, was interviewed regarding these issues by Michel Collon, a Belgian writer and journalist.

Professor HUANG Renwei, China Forum Expert, Academic Committee Member of CISS, Tsinghua University，Executive Director-General of Fudan Institute for Belt and Road and Global Governance participated in the online discussion ‘Asia and COVID-19’hosted by Australian National University Crawford Leadership Forum(ACLF). He’s optimistic about the future of Asia and observed ‘Asia is the best region in terms of pandemic control. It’s necessary that the U.S. and China cooperate fighting Covid-19. BRI is the only part of the world market that still keeps on growing during the early part of the year and public health will play an important role which will make BRI more efficient and sustainable.’

What new role will science and technology play in the post-pandemic era? If Chinese tech companies want to enter the world market, which market should they choose as the entry point? What policies do China take to promote market development that other countries could learn from? What are the advantages of the cross industry cooperation of tech companies? Han Hua, Executive Committee of China Forum and CGTN commentator, interviewed Tang Xiaoyang, Associate Professor of International Relations at Tsinghua University, about how technological competition will affect Sino-US relations and even the global political and economic structure.

What should we think about the economic and drug sanctions policy of the United States against some countries? How to interpret the aggression of American politicians? How to interpret the decrease in the proportion of foreign trade in China's overall economic activities? If the United States stops cooperation with China, how much will China lose? Ding Yifan, China Forum Expert and Vice President of the French Branch of the European Society of China, interviewed by Belgian writer and journalist Michel Cologne regarding these issues.

Zhang Lirong, Secretary-General of China Forum， Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy, participated in the online debate ‘Europe, Asia and their post-pandemic future’ hosted by Friends of Europe. He observed ‘China and EU, Asia and EU should play a bigger role on the international arena. ASEM which represents more than half of the world GDP and 60% of the world population and trade should be one of the major cornerstones of the global governance in the future.’

While the whole world is fighting coronavirus, some “political viruses” have messed up people’s minds. How will it affect the international anti-virus cooperation? How is China supposed to respond to the international public opinion? Is the U.S. trying to build an production chain that excludes China? What new challenges BRI is facing? Mr. ZHANG Lirong, China Forum Secretary-General, former minister of the Chinese Mission to the EU conducted an interview with Mr. YU Hongjun, China Forum expert, former vice minister of the International Department, Central Committee of CPC, touching upon all those issues.

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