REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Carnegie–Tsinghua’s Zhang Lihua will moderate a discussion with 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.

Friday, November 27, 2pm-5:45pm

“Major-Power Diplomacy With Chinese Characteristics”

Zhang Lihua, Director, Center for European Studies, Tsinghua University

Yin Jiwu, Associate Professor, School of International Relations and Diplomacy, Beijing Foreign Studies University

Zhang Qingmin, Professor, School of International Studies, Peking University

Ma Xiaojun, Professor, Institute for International Strategic Studies, Central Party School

Chen Xulong, Director, Department for International and Strategic Studies, China Institute of International Studies

Manuel Perez Garcia, Associate Professor, School of International Studies, Renmin University

Fabian Bauwens, Lecturer, School of International Relations, Renmin University

Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy

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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 with 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.

Zhang Lihua is a resident scholar at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy and the director of the Center for European Studies in the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University.

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Event information courtesy of Legation Quarter.