On September 4, 2021, ChinaHUB-Shanghai of The European House-Ambrosetti Forum entitled “Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy,” was held in Shanghai. The event, co-organized by the China Forum, brought together an array of speakers, including Eric LI, Vice Chairman of the China Forum; HUANG Renwei, China Forum Expert; HUANG Jing, University Professor at Beijing Language and Culture University; Michele Geraci, former Undersecretary of State at the Italian Ministry of Economic Development; and Richard Carney, Professor of Strategy and International Business at China Europe International Business School.

On August 25, ZHOU Bo, a senior fellow at Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy and a China Forum Expert, gave an interview to Euronews Tonight to discuss China’s views and position on Afghanistan.

On August 18, the “International Expert Dialogue on the Origins of COVID-19” was held online by the China Forum under the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University and the Global Governance Institute, an independent think tank in China. Chinese and international public health scientists and epidemiologists discussed the challenges of investigating the origins of the virus and called for science in such investigative endeavors.

On June 25, 2021, the China Forum under Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS-CF) formally announced its partnership with the Institute for Reform of State-Business Relations (IREE), an independent think tank based in Brazil committed to promoting understanding of the country’s national policies and advancing democratic and pluralistic debate to improve the interaction between the public and private sectors.

On June 14 local time, Going Underground on RT aired an interview with Eric Li, Vice Chairman of the China Forum, where he shared his views on current Chinese issues of interest.

On June 9-10, the webinar: The Role of Political Parties in Modernizing Governance and Public Management was successfully held. The two-day event was jointly organized by the China Forum under Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy and the Institute for Reform of State-Business Relations (IREE), featuring the participation of presidents of major political parties in Brazil, including the Workers’ Party (PT), the Communist Party of Brazil (PCdoB), the Brazilian Democratic Movement (MDB), the Democratic Labor Party (PDT), the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB), the Social Democratic Party (PSD), the Socialism and Liberty Party (PSOL), among others.

On June 9, the China Forum under Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy and the Institute for Reform of State-Business Relations (IREE), based in Brazil, jointly organized the opening ceremony and the first session of the webinar: The Role of Political Parties in Modernizing Governance and Public Management, in which political party leaders and scholars from the two country exchanged views on the topic of “Modernizing State Governance: Practices and Experience of Political Parties.”

One year after the China-India border skirmish in the Galwan Valley, Senior Colonel ZHOU Bo (ret) gave an interview to the BBC to explain China’s position. Colonel Zhou is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University, a China Forum Expert and former Director of the Centre for Security Cooperation at the Office for International Military Cooperation, Ministry of National Defense.

On May 20-21, 2021, a closed-door conference titled ‘China Today and Tomorrow’ was held by the China Forum under the Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University, in cooperation with the Academy of Contemporary China and World Studies and the Ditchley Foundation. The event, which was an online/offline gathering of more than 100 participants, engaged different perspectives from politics, academia, media and business.

On the morning of May 11, 2021, a workshop themed “Real Images · Real Xinjiang” was held in Beijing by the China Forum under the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University and Beijign InHope Pictures Co., Ltd. The event brought together close to 30 participants from academia, the China Forum, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, media, and Tsinghua University.

On May 7, 2021, a book talk on Coevolutionary Pragmatism: Approaches and Impacts of China-Africa Economic Cooperation by TANG Xiaoyang was held in the Dalio Auditorium, Schwarzman College. Tang is a China Forum Expert, Resident Scholar at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, and Associate Professor of International Relations at Tsinghua University. H. E. Mr. Rahamtalla M. Osman, Permanent Representative of the African Union to China, attended the event, which was jointly organized by the China Forum under the Center for International Security and Strategy, the Department of International Relations, and the Graduate Student Union of the School of Social Sciences, all at Tsinghua University. Ms. HAN Hua, Executive Committee Member of the China Forum, presided over the session.

On April 28, 2021, Professor YU Hongjun, former Vice Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, former Chinese Ambassador to Uzbekistan and a China Forum Expert, gave a lecture themed “China and the World amid the Great Changes” to over 200 students at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), sharing his insights on the relationship between China and the rest of the world and the strategic choices of China’s neighbors in times of unprecedented changes as well as on how to identify and respond to such changes.