On October 28, 2026, the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS) at Tsinghua University held the 104th session of its Security and Strategy Seminar, themed “U.S. and EU Indo-Pacific Strategies”. The seminar brought together experts and scholars from domestic think tanks and universities, who engaged in in-depth discussions on topics including the similarities and differences between U.S. and EU Indo-Pacific strategies, the prospects for U.S.-EU strategic coordination in the region, and their global and regional impacts.

The seminar was chaired by SUN Chenghao, Senior Fellow of CISS. Participating experts focused on the new evolutions of U.S. and EU Indo-Pacific strategies from the Biden administration to the Trump 2.0 era, and held discussions on the converging and diverging interests of the U.S. and the EU in the Asia-Pacific, the driving logic behind their strategic behaviors, as well as potential changes and long-term impacts against the backdrop of the evolving international situation.

Participating guests included XIAO Qian, Deputy Director of CISS; Zhao Qinghai, Research Fellow and Director of the Editorial Department of China International Studies at the China Institute of International Studies; Cui Hongjian, Professor at the Country and Area Studies Academy and Director of the Center for EU and Regional Development Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University; Sun Ru, Research Fellow and Director of the Center for Global Security Governance at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations; Zhang Biao, Associate Professor and Department Head of the School of Political Science and Public Administration, China University of Political Science and Law; Xu Ruojie, Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Song Fang, Lecturer at the Institute of International Strategy, Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (National Academy of Governance); and Dong Yifan, Associate Research Fellow at the Academy of International and Regional Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University.