On September 9, Yun Sun, Senior Fellow and Director of the China Program of the Stimson Center, and her delegation visited the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) of Tsinghua University to discuss topics such as the current situation in Northeast Asia and US-China cooperation and challenges in the region.

The visiting American scholars also included Joseph Yun, Former US Special Representative for North Korea Policy; Robert A. Manning, Distinguished Fellow of Strategic Foresight Hub of the Stimson Center; Jenny Town, Senior Fellow of the Stimson Center and Deputy Director of Stimson’s 38 North; and Sydney Tucker, Research Associate with the East Asia program at the Stimson Center.

Chinese experts participating in the panel discussion included Da Wei, Director of CISS; An Gang, Non-resident Fellow of CISS; Yang Xiyu, Senior Fellow of the Department for Asia-Pacific Studies at the China Institute of International Studies; Cheng Xiaohe, Professor of the Department of International Politics of the School of International Studies at Renmin University of China; and Li Tingting, Associate Professor of the Department of Korean Language and Culture of the School of Foreign Languages at Peking University.

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Based in Washington, D.C., the Stimson Center is a leading think tank on international security. Since 2021, CISS and the Stimson Center have jointly organized a series of virtual dialogues to facilitate small-scope, in-depth discussions between Chinese and American experts on important developments in China-US relations as well as in international security and strategy. In the future, the two sides will have more exchanges around “China-US+”, i.e., the third-party factors in China-US relations.