**REGISTRATION REQUIRED*** With its increasingly proactive diplomatic agenda, China has begun shaping its international environment through initiatives such as the Belt and Road and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

In 2012, the eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed the concept of major-power diplomacy with Chinese characteristics as the framework for China’s diplomatic engagement. In contrast with previous dictums of maintaining a low international profile, major-power diplomacy has entailed a more proactive diplomatic agenda. China has begun to act more assertively to shape the international environment through initiatives such as the Belt and Road and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

Carnegie–Tsinghua’s Zhang Lihua will moderate a discussion among a panel of Chinese and international experts about the key features of China’s approach to major-power diplomacy and the motivations for this policy change. They will also comment on how it has affected China’s foreign policy process and strategies in recent years.

The panel:

• Yin Jiwu, associate professor in the School of International Relations and Diplomacy at Beijing Foreign Studies University
• Zhang Qingmin, professor in the School of International Studies at Peking University
• Ma Xiaojun, professor at the Institute for International Strategic Studies at the Central Party School of the Communist Party’s Central Committee
• Chen Xulong, senior research fellow and director of the Department for International and Strategic Studies at the China Institute of International Studies
• Manuel Perez Garcia, professor in the School of International Studies at Renmin University
• Fabian Bauwens, researcher and lecturer in the School of International Studies at Renmin University

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