​Wang Yiwei, a professor at School of International Studies, Renmin University of China, and China Forum Expert, visited the China Forum to answer the audience's questions about what the Communist Party of China is. He analyzes China's international image in the post-epidemic era, pointing out the misunderstanding of the western world that China wants to export the governance model, and digging out the deep ideological and cultural roots behind this misunderstanding.

In addition to two legal opinions, one by experts at the Newlines Institute in the United States and another by lawyers at the London-based Essex Court Chambers, the ongoing public hearing conducted by London’s “Uygur Tribunal” — requested by a U.S.-funded Uygur lobbying group — is just another attempt at the nongovernmental level to establish a case of the crime of genocide in China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

One year has passed since a deadly brawl between Chinese and Indian troops in the Galwan Valley in the China-Indian border areas, which resulted in the death of 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese troops. The aftermath is still being felt today.

On June 10, 2021, the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS), Tsinghua University, held a webinar themed “China-India Relations: Prospects and Challenges.”

On April 9, 2021, the Dialogue on China-Europe Relations was jointly held by the China Forum under the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University and The European House – Ambrosetti. H.E. WU Hongbo, former UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Representative of the Chinese Government on European Affairs, delivered a keynote speeches on the current China-Europe relations.

In a report titled Making Peace with Nature released in February 2021, the United Nations Environment Programme pointed out that climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental pollution are the three major crises that the Earth is confronted with. The three interlinked crises threaten humanity's viability as a species. Among the three aforementioned crises, climate change poses the most sever challenge and is the one in most urgent need of solving.

After the U.S. has put forward its Asia-Pacific strategy in 2017, many commentators believed that the concept was artificial and lacking in political foundation, concluding therefore that it would not take off. However, contrary to this prediction, the development of the Indo-Pacific strategy in recent years shows a trend of strengthening, and this trend is likely to continue in the near future. On the whole, the factors driving the Indo-Pacific strategy forward are clearly stronger than the constraints.

According to a Washington Post poll, Biden's satisfaction rate at 64% on pandemic control has been the most positive, his satisfaction rate on economic policy stands at 52% with a dissatisfactory rate of 41%. The $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill signed last month has received an approving rate of 65%. However, on the U.S.-Mexico border issues, his dissatisfactory rate is 53% and satisfaction rate is only 37%. There is still a long way for the U.S. to handle the epidemic, and its prospects of economic growth are still uncertain, humanitarian disasters are frequent, and the political polarization is expanding...China Forum sits down with Prof. DIAO Daming, associate professor of Renmin University of China and China Froum Expert on Biden's 100-day performance.

India and the United States have been part of the chorus chanting about the “free and open Indo-Pacific” in recent years, but they are not birds of a feather flocking together. The decision to challenge India’s EEZ suggests that Washington does not consider millions of square kilometres of water in the Indian Ocean “free and open”.

On February 4, 2021, the Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University (CISS), and CITIC Press Group jointly held a seminar on "Challenges and Choices under the a period of major change that’s rarely seen in a century---- "Seeinging the World 2" seminar and Ambassador Fu Ying's New Book Sharing Meeting in Schwarzman Scholars, Tsinghua University. Xue Lan, Dean of Schwarzman Scholars, Peng Kaiping, Dean of Academy of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Da Wei, Deputy Director of CISS, and Liu Xin, Senior Host of CGTN, participated in the roundtable discussion.

What Director Yang Jiechi said really hit the U.S. where it hurts as its hard power and soft power are all in decline, which means that its strength is a hollow shell with not as much strength contained within.They are like the House of Jia in Dream of the Red Chamber that ”it’s only superficially strong but is in deep internal crisis”.

On March 31, 2021, the Chinese Mission to the European Union and the European think tank Friends of European co-organized a seminar themed “The Dual Circulation - China’s Place on the World Stage”. HUANG Ping, a China Forum Expert, director of Taiwan HongKong Macao Research Center Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, delivered a speech on the implications and significance of the dual circulation policy.

A U.S. Navy ship entered the India’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in less than a month after the Quad summit between the leaders of the United States, India, Japan and Australia. Its Seventh Fleet even hyped a special statement. On the other hand, the U.S. refused to comment on lifting ban on COVID-19 vaccine raw materials export to India, making the epidemic crisis even worse in India . When the U.S. is in great need of India's help to confront with China, however India is confused by those unreasonable actions. Does a free and open Indo-Pacific reveal unlikely bedfellows between the U.S. and the India? What is the future of India being a "quasi alliance" of the U.S.? In response to the above problems, China Forum interviewed Zhou Bo, Senior Fellow, CISS, Tsinghua University, Director of the Centre for Security and China Forum expert.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the breakup of the Soviet Union. Collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent independency of its former republics could be evaluated differently depending on the perspective, and its causes could be studied through different approaches and analytical frameworks. In this regard, much has been written about the “deep causes” of its breakdown. The author does not intend to dwell on these, rather resorting to the perspective of empirical observation to talk about its shallow causes, that is, the most direct cause of the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Lately, the WHO released the investigation report researched in Wuhan, concluding that introduction of Covid 19 through a laboratory incident was considered to be an extremely unlikely pathway. The report from WHO demonstrated China’s willingness in international cooperation. Now the global efforts of Covid-19 vaccination have been accelerated, where will the world go? Can we expect a much more normal life by the end of 2021 year?Instead of discussing another investigation in China, we should discuss where the next stop of global traceability should be. Xiao Qian，Deputy Director of Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University，Member of China Forum Executive Committee, discussed these issues with Tang Bei, a China Forum Expert and an associate professor at Shanghai International Studies University.

Since the bloody conflict on the China-Indian border last year, the development of China-Indian relations has attracted great attention from all sides. What is the root cause of the long-drawn-out China-Indian border negotiations? What kind of calculations is India playing on the border investigation? Since Biden came to power, he has made a series of foreign policy adjustments against China, emphasizing the role of Asia-Pacific allies. In response to these questions, Zhou Bo, a senior fellow of Center for International Security and Strategic, Tsinghua University, China Forum expert, and former director of the Center for Security Cooperation in the office for International Military Cooperation, was interviewed by Han Hua, member of China Forum Executive Committee and CGTN commentator.

The largest question hovering over the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, grouping of the United States, Japan, Australia and India is what exactly it is.

On March 18-19, the China-US high-level strategic dialogue was held in Alaska; On March 22-23, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov was invited to visit China; Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Blinken visited NATO and the European Union.Zhou Bo, a senior fellow of Center for International Security and Strategic, Tsinghua University, China Forum expert, and former director of the Center for Security Cooperation in the office for International Military Cooperation, was interviewed by Han Hua, member of China Forum Executive Committee and CGTN commentator.

The Alaska meeting is the first high-level meeting between China and the U.S. under the Biden administration. The unusual public spat between the two sides is a hot issue over the media. How to evaluate the significance of the meeting? Zhou Bo, a senior fellow at the Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University, shared his views. The transcript is edited for brevity and clarity. It reflects the author's views and not necessarily those of CGTN.

It is interesting to see how, in one month, Mars suddenly had three visitors from Earth. First, the United Arab Emirates’ probe named Amal, or Hope, arrived on February 9; a day later, China’s Tianwen-I entered Mars’ orbit. Perseverance, Nasa’s newest rover, landed on the red planet’s surface on February 18. Why can’t nations pool their resources and knowledge on such gargantuan tasks that are extremely difficult and expensive?

Moscow’s greatest success in the near abroad will be the transformation of the region into a real strategic resource, and its biggest failure will be its transformation into a strategic burden for Russia, writes Valdai Club expert Zhao Huasheng.