SIIS Is to Chair the Panel of “Asian-Pacific Security Architecture” under the Framework of BFA 2015
2016/09/10 read：483
Asian-Pacific region has become the most dynamic one in world economy, and is playing an ever-increasingly important role in global order. However, due to historic and standing conflicts of interests, understanding and cooperation on security within the region has been lagged well behind regional economic integration. Recently, emerging nonconventional security challenges and existent territorial disputes pose threats of varying magnitudes to the peace and stability of this region, harm mutual trust between nations in the area and hinder overall development and cooperation in Asia.
What’s unfolding in both Asia and Asian-Pacific area is evident enough that traditional Asian security arrangements descending from the Cold War Ear are no longer able to address effectively either conventional or nonconventional security issues frequently inflicting regional countries. In recent years, calls for a new type of security mechanism better constructed and more adaptive to environment have become more intense. In 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed at CICA Shanghai Summit a new concept of Asian Security that stresses common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security to tackle rising challenges facing the region and advocated all parties concerned to build upon the new concept a novel security framework for Asian-Pacific region. This initiative lent a guiding principle to concrete cooperation among regional countries in maintaining security and constructing new security mechanism for Asian-Pacific region. It’s too often easier perceived than done. However there is still a long way ahead to generate consensus, solve existent conflicts, settle standing disputes before we can jointly push forward the construction of security mechanism with Asian characteristics. In approaching this end, it’s particularly important for intelligentsia and political elites from all countries concerned to fully exchange their ideas and opinions through public diplomacy channels.
Given this, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) accepted the task to chair a security panel of BFA 2015 with the title of “Transcending the Cold-War Mentality: A Fresh Outlook on Security Architecture in the Asia Pacific”. The panel has confirmed attendance of Mr. Bob Hawke, former prime minister of Australia and other world renowned scholars and former statesmen from Malaysia, Russia, Canada and China, etc, and will conduct in-depth dialogues around the central issue: how to deepen security cooperation and achieve a win-win situation for Asia. We are confident that the fruits these dialogues bear will certainly play a positive role in future Asian security architecture building.
As one of the most influential think tanks in China, SIIS has dedicated the past 50 odd years to the better understanding and knowledge of China by foreign scholars across the globe, and the realization of Chinese overall foreign strategy via public diplomacy channels. Together with Boao Forum for Asia, SIIS is going to cosponsor this panel which we believe will lead to further discussion about security cooperation in Asia, and offer more solutions to current Asian security issues.
What’s unfolding in both Asia and Asian-Pacific area is evident enough that traditional Asian security arrangements descending from the Cold War Ear are no longer able to address effectively either conventional or nonconventional security issues frequently inflicting regional countries. In recent years, calls for a new type of security mechanism better constructed and more adaptive to environment have become more intense. In 2014, Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed at CICA Shanghai Summit a new concept of Asian Security that stresses common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security to tackle rising challenges facing the region and advocated all parties concerned to build upon the new concept a novel security framework for Asian-Pacific region. This initiative lent a guiding principle to concrete cooperation among regional countries in maintaining security and constructing new security mechanism for Asian-Pacific region. It’s too often easier perceived than done. However there is still a long way ahead to generate consensus, solve existent conflicts, settle standing disputes before we can jointly push forward the construction of security mechanism with Asian characteristics. In approaching this end, it’s particularly important for intelligentsia and political elites from all countries concerned to fully exchange their ideas and opinions through public diplomacy channels.
Given this, Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) accepted the task to chair a security panel of BFA 2015 with the title of “Transcending the Cold-War Mentality: A Fresh Outlook on Security Architecture in the Asia Pacific”. The panel has confirmed attendance of Mr. Bob Hawke, former prime minister of Australia and other world renowned scholars and former statesmen from Malaysia, Russia, Canada and China, etc, and will conduct in-depth dialogues around the central issue: how to deepen security cooperation and achieve a win-win situation for Asia. We are confident that the fruits these dialogues bear will certainly play a positive role in future Asian security architecture building.
As one of the most influential think tanks in China, SIIS has dedicated the past 50 odd years to the better understanding and knowledge of China by foreign scholars across the globe, and the realization of Chinese overall foreign strategy via public diplomacy channels. Together with Boao Forum for Asia, SIIS is going to cosponsor this panel which we believe will lead to further discussion about security cooperation in Asia, and offer more solutions to current Asian security issues.