On November 23, Qiang Xiaoyun will be giving a lecture at CSIS on China-Russia relations since 2012.

Join us Monday, November 23 at 5pm at CSIS for a lecture (in Chinese of course!) on China-Russia relations since 2012. This is a critically important relationship that is not well understood by very many American policymakers and analysts. Dr. Qiang Xiaoyun is a senior fellow and deputy director of the Shanghai Institute of International Studies’ Department of Russia-Central Asian Studies. She has spent most of her academic and professional life in Russia and has an understanding of the China-Russia relationship that very few can match.

About Qiang Xiaoyun:

Qiang Xiaoyun is a senior fellow and a Deputy Director of Department of Russian-Central Asian Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS). Dr. Qiang obtained a Ph.D. degree in political science and a master degree in world economics from Institute for Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Her research interests include: Russian and Central Asia Affairs, Sino-Russian Relations, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, international immigration, international energy strategy studies. Dr. Qiang has published three books and more than forty articles.

The American Mandarin Society organized the event to better understand the relation between China and Russia.

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