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.

On April 26, 2021, the project “CPC History Lectures” was launched by the CPC Committee of the China International Chamber of Commerce for the Private Sector (CICCPS) in collaboration with ten national civil society organizations in China. Professor YU Hongjun, former Vice Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a China Forum Expert, was the inaugural speaker of the lecture series, addressing a 150-strong audience on “The Evolution of the Landscape of World Political Parties and Foreign Relations of the Communist Party of China.” Mr. WANG Yanguo, Secretary of the CPC Committee of CICCPS, presided over the event.

​On April 26, 2021, Green Development & Cooperation: Global Joint Efforts and Pathways to Carbon Neutral was jointly held by the China Forum under Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy, Hainan Green Finance Research Institute, and Central University of Finance and Economics, bringing together more than 10 heavyweights from academia and industry at home and abroad, including China Forum Secretary General Mr. ZHANG Lirong and Executive Committee Member Professor HAN Hua.

On April 25, 2021, the Green Development Forum and the Seminar on The Road to Carbon Neutrality (Domestic Sub-Forum) was held in Beijing by the China Forum under Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy, Hainan Green Finance Research Institute, and Central University of Finance and Economics, bringing together over 50 heavyweights from government, academia and industry.

On April 22 and 23, a conference titled “Global finance, states and societies: how can finance be one of the heroes of a green recovery from the great pandemic?” was held online by the Ditchley Foundation, a China Forum partner, convening more than 60 participants from around the world for discussions on the future of the UK as a financial center after Brexit, climate change and pandemic recovery, financial regulation in the digital age, and how global finance can be more resilient to face shocks without stifling innovation and investment. The Chinese panel included YU Xiang, Research Fellow at Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy and Senior Researcher at the Research Institute of China Construction Bank, and GONG Jiong, China Forum Expert and Professor of Economics at the University of International Business and Economics.