January 9, Mr. Franz X. Danner, Head of Office for Security Policy and Asia of Department of International Affairs of Executive Committee of the SPD visits SIIS and exchanges views with Prof. Zhao Gancheng, Director of the Center for Asian-Pacific Studies, Prof Ye Jiang, Director of the Institute for Global Governance Studies, Dr Zhang Yinghong, Director of the Center for European Studies on the China’s position on Afghanistan issues, China’s foreign policy especially with neighboring countries after the 18th Party Congress and other issues.