On October 28, 2025, Esko Aho, former Prime Minister of Finland and Chairman of the Finland Industry China Office, led a delegation to visit the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University. The meeting was attended by Da Wei, Director of CISS; Xiao Qian, Deputy Director; Zhao Hai, Director of the International Politics Research Department, National Global Strategy Think Tank, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Pan Yuanyuan, Deputy Director of the International Investment Office; and Shi Yan, Assistant Research Fellow at CISS. The delegation and CISS experts discussed issues including China–U.S.–EU relations and artificial intelligence (AI) governance.
On the morning of October 29, 2025, a delegation from the Arsenault Family Foundation China visited the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University. The two sides exchanged views and held discussions on current U.S.–China relations, the fentanyl issue, and potential cooperation mechanisms.
From October 23 to 24, 2025, Dr. Sun Chenghao, Associate Research Fellow at the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS), Tsinghua University, attended the international academic symposium “Understanding China’s Advanced Technology Export Controls” held in The Hague, the Netherlands. The conference was co-hosted by Dr. Guangyu Qiao-Franco, Assistant Professor at Radboud University, and Dr. Rogier Creemers, Assistant Professor at Leiden University.
Risk dominates current discussions on AI governance. This July, Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel and Turing laureate, addressed the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. His speech bore the ti
On September 9, 2025, the second Financial Review Asia Summit was convened in Sydney, Australia. Co-hosted by the Australian Financial Review (AFR) and the Asia Society Australia, the summit brought t
The CISS Podcast features conversations with experts from CISS Tsinghua, a research institute that analyzes international security and strategy issues based in Beijing. In the CISS Podcast, scholars and experts will address their thinking on the most pressing challenges in international relations. It will also present China Forum series conducting one-on-one discussions with top-level officials, diplomats, well-known entrepreneurs, academics, and media experts from both China and abroad.
Beijing, June 20, 2025 – China Forum at Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) successfully hosted the sixth session of its "China Forum: Face to Face" exchange event.
On May 16, 2025, the China Forum of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University successfully held the fifth "China Forum: Face to Face" Dialogue.
On February 13-14, 2025, CISS of Tsinghua University and the Brookings Institution held the 12th round of the“China-U.S. Track 2 Dialogue on Artifi cial Intelligence and International Security” in Mun
Donald Trump’s re-election at the end of 2024 reaffirmed the fundamental shift in the international order. Against this backdrop, the impacts of key factors such as the new U.S. administration’s bold
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