Chairman of SIIS Academic Affairs Council Yang Jiemian headed a delegation to the United States from May 12 to 17, 2018, including APARC, Stanford, US National Security Council, Eurasia Group, US State Department, Council on Foreign Relations, Brookings Institution, and Georgetown University. In these occasions, Prof. Yang exchanged views on the future of China-U.S. relations, China-U.S. strategic dialogues, and Asia-Pacific security cooperation.

During the visit, Prof. Yang also met with Ambassador Cui Tiankai, Chinese Ambassador to the U.S., Amb. Luo Linquan, Chinese Consul-General in San Francisco, Amb. Zhang Qiyue, Chinese Consul-General in New York, and discussed China-U.S. relations and China-U.S. cooperation in economy and trade. Director of the Institute for International Strategic Studies Wu Chunsi and other colleagues were among the delegation.

During the visit in San Francisco from May 12 to 13, the delegation met with Amb. Lin Qinquan, Chinese Consul-General in San Francisco, and Amb. Karl W. Eikenberry, Director at Stanford APARC, and held a roundtable discussion with scholars, including Senior Fellow Donald K. Emmerson at Stanford Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, on the topic of future development of China-U.S. relations and regional security.

Meeting with Ambassador Lin Qinquan, Chinese Consul General in San Francisco

meeting with Prof. Karl W. Eikenberry, director of APARC, Stanford, and former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and his colleagues

From May 14 to 16, the SIIS group visited US National Security Council, Eurasia Group, US State Department, Council on Foreign Relations, Brookings Institution, Initiative for US-China Dialogue on Global Issues, Georgetown University, and exchanged views on the future of China-U.S. relations, China-U.S. strategic dialogues, and Asia-Pacific security cooperation.

Meeting with Ivan Kanapathy, Director of China Affairs, National Security Council

Meeting with Evan S. Medeiros, Former Senior Director for Asian Affairs, National Security Council

Meeting with Hanscom Smith, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific affairs

Roundtable at Council on Foreign Relations Washington Office, and meeting with Paul Stares, Director of the Center for Preventive Action at CFR and other research fellows with global governance project

Meeting with Richard Bush, Director of Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS), Brookings Institution with whom Prof. Yang exchanged views on China-U.S. relations and Asia-Pacific regional security

Meeting with Dennis Wilder, Senior Fellow of the Initiative for US-China Dialogue on Global Issues, Georgetown University

Meeting with Thomas Banchoff, Vice President for global engagement issues of Georgetown university

meeting with Ambassador Cui Tiankai, Chinese Ambassador to the U. S.

Meeting with Ambassador Zhang Qiyue, Chinese Consul-General in New York