On May 12, the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA) and the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) held a video dialogue on the relations of major countries, which was co-chaired by Mr. Wang Chao, President of the CPIFA, and Mr. Richard Fontaine, Chief Executive Officer of the CNAS.

The participants on the Chinese side include Prof. Li Junru, former Vice President of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee, Amb. Sha Zukang, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General and former Permanent Representative to Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other International Organizations in Switzerland, Prof. Yan Xuetong, Dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University, Prof. Yuan Peng, President of China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, and Prof. Fan Jishe, Director of Institute of Global Governance and International Organization Studies of the Institute for International Strategic Studies at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.

The participants on the US side include Ms. Lisa Curtis, senior fellow and Director of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the CNAS, Mr. Abraham Denmark, Director of the Asia Program at the Wilson Center, Mr. Jacob Stokes, fellow of the Indo-Pacific Security Program at the CNAS, Ms. Elizabeth Economy, senior fellow for China Studies of the Council on Foreign Relations, Mr. Jude Blanchette, Freeman Chair of China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Ms. Nadege Rolland, senior fellow for Political and Security Affairs at the National Bureau of Asian Research.