On May 18, 2026, the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University hosted the 99th session of its Strategic and Security Forum, titled “Frontier AI Risks and Governance: Space for China-U.S. Cooperation.” The seminar was moderated by Xiao Qian, Deputy Director of CISS, and brought together more than ten experts and scholars from institutions including Tsinghua University, the National Defense University of the People's Liberation Army, Beijing Normal University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, and the Overseas Policy Research Center of the Alibaba Research Institute.

On September 16, 2025, the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University convened the 95th session of the Strategic and Security Seminar, titled “The Development and Challenges of Intelligent Unmanned Technology Applications.” The seminar was chaired by Xiao Qian, Deputy Director of CISS and Deputy Director of the Institute for AI International Governance.

On May 28, 2025, the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University held the 20th session of the CISS StratFocus Forum, themed “Observing Trends in U.S. Technology Strategy under Trump 2.0.” The keynote speaker was Dr. Tang Xinhua, Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of International Relations, Tsinghua University. Commentators included Dr. Jiang Tianjiao, Associate Professor at the Fudan Institute of Development Studies, and Mr. Gu Dengchen, Director of the Policy and Regulation Research Center at the Ali Research Institute. The forum was moderated by Dr. Xiao Qian, Deputy Director of CISS.

On the morning of May 22, the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University successfully held the 91st Security and Strategy Seminar, focusing on “Maritime Security and Trans-Pacific Shipping Cooperation.” The seminar was co-organized with the National Strategy Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and was moderated by Dr. Dong Ting, Associate Research Fellow at CISS. Scholars and experts from 16 institutions—including Peking University, Tsinghua University, Renmin University of China, Shanghai Maritime University, Dalian Maritime University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, as well as enterprises and analytical organizations from Beijing, Guangzhou, and Ningbo—joined the discussions.

On the morning of May 6, the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University held the 90th session of its Security and Strategy Seminar, themed “Assessing and Responding to the Current State of China-U.S. Relations.”

On the afternoon of June 13, the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) of Tsinghua University and the Institute for Taiwan Studies of Tsinghua University co-organized the 84th Security and Strategy Seminar on “China-EU Relations and European Trends Toward Taiwan.”

On the afternoon of April 11, the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) of Tsinghua University held the 82nd Security and Strategy Seminar on “Capacity Building and International Cooperation on Artificial Intelligence.” Moderated by Xiao Qian, Deputy Director of CISS and Vice Dean of the Institute for AI International Governance (I-AIIG) of Tsinghua University, the Seminar invited experts from universities, research institutes, and enterprises, including the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Peking University, China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), China People’s Liberation Army National Defense University, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS), China Mobile Research Institute, Alibaba Group, and SenseTime, to have in-depth discussions on the topics, such as how to enhance AI capacity building and how to strengthen international cooperation and exchange in the field of AI governance.

On December 20, the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) of Tsinghua University held the 80th Security and Strategy Seminar on “Theory and Practice of China’s People-to-People Diplomacy in the New Era.”

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On the afternoon of September 26, the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) of Tsinghua University held the 76th session of the Forum on Security and Strategy—Seminar on “Decoding U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy,” inviting more than ten experts and scholars from Peking University (PKU), Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), Fudan University, Guangxi University for Nationalities (GXUN), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), and Tsinghua University for discussions and exchanges.

On the morning of September 10, the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) of Tsinghua University and the Institute for AI International Governance (I-AIIG) of Tsinghua University co-organized the 75th session of the Forum on Security and Strategy – Seminar on “Global AI Governance and Cooperation.”